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Paruga

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-02-07

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Masking Partition Access (user/group specific)

Hello,

I'm currently working on a setup and my issue is the following: I'm seeing the partitions of my internal drive in dolphin. They are ntfs partitions mounted at boot, gated behind a folder and through other file managers I can't access them - as intended.

I was wondering: What is dolphin doing differently?

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twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: Masking Partition Access (user/group specific)

other file managers [] can't access them

Are you saying that Dolphin can list the files on those partitions but other managers can't? Or are the partitions just "shown" but you can't actually list their files with Dolphin? Because those would be completely different issues.

Paruga

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-02-07

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Re: Masking Partition Access (user/group specific)

Are you saying that Dolphin can list the files on those partitions but other managers can't? Or are the partitions just "shown" but you can't actually list their files with Dolphin?

They are "shown" in Dolphin (listed as devices) I can directly access via the devices icon.
The mount points are however inside another folder the user cannot see into.

So, I'm somehow trying to bind windows partitions into my system without Dolphin showing them. But I don't want to just hide them in dolphin, I care more about how it does that.

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twelveeighty

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Re: Masking Partition Access (user/group specific)

Most likely Dolphin either reads /etc/fstab or makes an API call to list mount points, both are accessible by non-root users. You'll have to configure Dolphin to not list those partitions.