[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:20:13 -0500
Thanks for the info on sudo, being the only user on my computers, it
is not something I have to worry about, and sometimes I want to do more
than one thing while in a root terminal.
fuse eh? I'll give it a look. ---Jim
Roger Feese wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:14:08PM -0500, Jim Worrest wrote:
> [mounting other partitions]
>> The last Knoppix I found that did something in the old-fashioned way,
>> was 5.1.1, and even then I had to fiddle with fstab, so that as a regular
>> user, I could access windows partitions. The latest Debian while giving
>> you a rather fitful way of accessing other partitions it wants you to be
>> root to do it, and of course, you can't do that from a gui as user, or
>> at least I didn't find a way to do it.
>
> It sounds like you are dealing with filesystem permissions problems.
> Different filesystems have different user permissions capabilities. NTFS
> and FAT systems have different capabilities and so when you mount these,
> you need to specify permissions options if you want to allow regular
> users to access them. By default they only allow root access. See the
> replies from techworld.mail in this thread.
>
> You may also want to investigate using FUSE to mount filesystems as a
> regular user.
>
>> That I'm aware of and that is something of a pain. I'm not quite sure
>> the advantage of "sudo" over using "su" :-\
>
> Sudo just another layer of damage control, and I highly recommend using
> it. With sudo you are typically just running one command at a time as
> root. I use this all the time in Debian when I find that I want to
> install or update software.
>
> On a system with multiple admins, sudo is useful for providing
> fine-grained admin access to different users.
>
> -Rog
>
> Roger Feese
>
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