[ale] Permission hell question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 20:24, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Wednesday 30 June 2004 03:50 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> |  Maybe Sean can post the specifics of the actual zip 
> | interface?
> 
> I am following this discussion with some (slightly bemused)
> interest.
> But I am not certain exactly what specifics you might want
> here. My zip drive is an IDE device.  I have a hard drive
> and the CD/DVD burner on the primary IDE connector and the
> second hard drive and the zip drive on the secondary IDE
> connector.  The two hard drives are linked in a RAID.
> 
> Someone (Dow?) wrote that the safest way for beginners is to
> su to root and mount/copy from there.  I would posit that
> beginners should NOT be given the suggestion to act as root 
> unnecessarily as a mistyped command can do enormous damage.
> It's sorta like telling your grandmother she can open up the
> box and add a stick of memory. <grin>
> 
> other parts of the zip setup:
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> fstab:
> 
> /dev/hdd4     /mnt/zip    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

If you change the owner to user, the person at the console can
mount/umount the zip disk using magicdev and the gnome enviroment by
right clicking on the background and select the disk to mount if it
doesn't mount automagically. KDE has a similar feature that is just as
easy for non-admin types to use.
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> auto.misc
> 
> zip  -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,gid=users,uid=nobody,umask=7   :/dev/hdd4
> 
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> permissions:
> 
>     brw-------   1 kilpatms disk    22,  68 Jan 30  2003 hdd4
> 
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
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