how about giving your user root permitions ? that way you will be the only one that can make changes to that partition, and it will be safe from other users.. (they will have (ro) )
> I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and > linux. It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read anything > else. I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is, is there > anyway to mount this drive (/dev/hdd1) on boot with permissions so everyone > in linux can write to it? I hate having to switch to root to write to this > drive. I know that the reason this is done is for security (so you don't > accidently have one of your linux users delete your whole windows drive :), > but windows isn't on this drive. any ideas? > > mark -- ----------------------------------- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )X (m_m) | | ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| |> < |_)_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/\ http://whatsup.homelinux.com -----------------------------------
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