"Rich Harran." wrote: > > I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a > normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I > changed to: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root > and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same > problem, and found that the permissions had changed back. I'm using X > now, as I've changed them again, but how do I stop them changing back when > I restart? ... Ok, I restarted again, and this time the permissions > didn't change back, so I guess that's solved (bit wierd though!). > > Also, I want to be able to read-write automatically mounted dos drives as > a normal user in group 'dos' (I read this was the right way to approach > it in this list a while ago). I created the group, and added user 'rich' > to it, but I can't change the group of the directory /mnt (my dos drive), > to 'dos'. > > The drive is mounted with the line: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat defaults 0 0 > > To what should I change this? I've tried changing the options column to > defaults,gid=dos > but then the drive refuses to mount (BTW how do I view the startup > messages after they've whizzed off the top of the screen?). > > Sorry I crammed so many silly questions into one posting. > Thanks in advance >
Something like the line below should work. Make sure your user is a member of the 'dos' group. You should be able to type 'groups' and 'dos' will be one of the listed groups. Note the '35' below; thats the number (gid) of my 'dos' group. You'll need to replace it with the number assigned to your 'dos' group. Look in /etc/group for the number (while in this file, double-check that the user is really in the 'dos' group). /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35 0 0 -- Ed C.