Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mount /chmod question Message-ID: <200004060402.e36423M09978@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <38EC0979.D397908@dsl-gw2-dhcp-a93.clsp.uswest.net> from Mark at "Apr 5, 2000 09:50:17 pm"
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You do realize that this is a MAJOR security risk. To be able to write to that drive as a normal user, use: chmod 777 /dos This will allow ANYONE to write to /dos. Beware that this is a major security risk! What I recommend is that you make a group, and addusers to that group that you want to be able to have write access to /dos. Do do this, add this line to /etc/group: dosw:*:101:root,otheruser Add the users that you want able to write to /dos to that group. Then do: # chown root:dosw /dos # chmod 775 /dos To be more secure, and deny all read access to any other users, do this: # chmod 770 /dos This will probably be the best way to do it. Hope this helps. --bhishan > 2 physical drives. Drive one is removable and all FreeBSD. Drive two is > fat32 formatted and allows me to share between FBSD and Win98. > > fstab: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad1s1 /dos msdos rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > > I added the ad1s1 line. Not sure if this was the correct dev, but it > lets me see that drive. Iam unable to write to this drive as a normal > user. > > ls -dl /dos > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Dec 31 1979 dos > > My user is part of the wheel group so I tried to use chmod. > Running chmod as root user. > > chmod 774 /dos > ls -dl /dos > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Dec 31 1979 dos > > Nothing changes. I want to be able to write to this drive as a normal > user/wheel. Tried using mount_msdos using the man page to no avail. > > Thoughts? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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