Need user write access to directory [Solved]

Bysshe · 2010-05-12 23:04:28

chown doesn't work.

I need access to it by everybody read and write mostly

Last edited by Bysshe (2010-05-13 01:04:26)

Allan · 2010-05-12 23:16:51

"chmod 777 <dir>" will give everyone full access to the directory. "chmod 1777 <dir>" will allow only the creator of files to delete them.

Bysshe · 2010-05-12 23:22:47

I'm getting permission denied using all commands as super user and using sudo. I can verify it's exclusively owned by root:root.

Bysshe · 2010-05-12 23:25:34

the chmod command isn't denied, it just doesn't solve the problem.

Bysshe · 2010-05-12 23:59:52

More info would be helpful, right?

It's sharing access with Windows Vista by dual booting. I can write to the directory only as root. It has read permissions for all else. I still can't figure out how to give it write permission with chmod not working. That's why I started tyring to change ownership, which comes up permission denied even as root.

[rob@rob SAVE]$ ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 May 11 19:46 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 May 12 14:42 Sony

In addition, it is a FAT partition created when I first installed Arch. It never had access to Windows until I connected another drive and did the map (hd0) blah blah crap to make that work.

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Bysshe · 2010-05-13 00:06:45

I am going to try setting directory permission in fstab. ....no...that's mount permissions....

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fsckd · 2010-05-13 00:12:11

Fat has no inherent permissions feature. It is set by how you mount it. So yes, you have to set the right options in fstab.

Bysshe · 2010-05-13 00:15:56

I thought so, but the option is set as "defaults" like all other partitions. I guess I can try "rw, user" and see what happens.

*Nah, didn't accomplish anything. Just tried that and yeah rw,user not rw, user.

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fsckd · 2010-05-13 00:22:53

In man mount look at the section Mount options for fat, specifically umask, dmask and fmask. See if those help.

Bysshe · 2010-05-13 00:45:21

It's not having problems being mounted. It's readable by all. I need-in addition-write access by the user. chmod gives no output, and doesn't effectually work. all other commands give permission denied.

fsckd · 2010-05-13 00:56:13

It's all there in the man page under the section for fat.

Bysshe · 2010-05-13 00:57:11

Bingo. You're awesome. I just set umask=0000

There is probably a better way to do it. maybe 0002 instead. I'll look back at this thread when I get the chance. I think that setting makes it wide open.

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Need user write access to directory [Solved]

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