pablolie;497443 Wrote: > The last statement is kinda shocking. Why on earth would any capable > system administrator... well, never mind.
Because, dear boy, if you insist on mounting a file system so that only one user can read it, then the only way SBS could read it would be to BE that user (do you wish SBS to run as you? only after you log in? What if your spouse wants music too?) I have not said that you should run as root: I have pointed out that is the ONLY solution you accept, even if you refuse to accept it. You want SBS to be able to read any file even if file system permissions on your mounted NTFS drive forbid it. That means that you want SBS to be exempt from Unix permissions, which, again, means root. Explain, please, what other permission you are talking about that allows non-root processes to read files that permmissions would normally deny. You seem to keep missing that. > > The logic here isn't linear, and starts with the wrong premise that I > haveve refused anything. > Okay, then change the frigging permissions on your mount point to be correct. If you want SBS to read it, fix the permissions. That is -your- job as system admin, not the job of a package or even Ubuntu.. it is your job. > > The simple fact is that the admin user in Ubuntu granted the SBS > install process root rights via sudo, and it is the up for SBS > installation to grant the right permissions so that things work, as they > did before. > Wrong. > > And if you think Linux users haven't been having issues you are in > denial. This forum has been full of install issues with 7.4x Ubuntu is NOT "all linux distros" Really. EXPLAIN WHAT THE FIX is if you really believe this is an SBS problem. Hell, explain -exactly- what the problem is: Not "it doesn't work", but "SBS should be able to read from NTFS drives regardless of permissions set on the drive itself". -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71700 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
