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How to set write permissions on a mount point?
You can set the permissions on the mount point once it’s mounted with chmod or specify them in /etc/fstab. If you need the media user to access it, you can set the permissions to 764, and add them to the security group. Root always has access to everything.
Which is the best command to mount a partition?
You can go ahead and add the user option so that a regular user without sudo can mount it should it be unmounted. For practicality, the best option here is chown as it gives the user the needed permissions instantly. The chmod command can be used afterwards if the permissions need to be modified for others.
Do you need write permission to mount a volume?
A volume intended for use by my user was created at OS installation with root ownership and my user lacks write permissions. adding user or users mount option in /etc/fstab.
How to Mount USB drive with write permissions?
It mounts but the /home/storage receives root as owner and group and doesn’t allow media user to write there. If i use mount command without sudo as the user media – i’m not allowed. Says only root can use mount. If I use mount with options: server# sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /home/storage -o umask=000 I get what I need.
How to mount filesystem with read only access?
If you want some users to have read-write access and others to have read-only access regardless of file permissions, mount the filesystem read-write under a restricted access directory and use bindfs to make a read-only view of that filesystem.
How to change ownership of a mount point?
After the mounting the uid:gid and permissions of the mount point are set to ones from the root directory of the mounted partition. So to change the owner/permissions mount the partition as root, chdir to the mount point and set them as you want using # chmod 777 .
Can a user mount any disk in a group?
Now all users in group disk, for now it’s only username, can mount certain disk. To answer your question in parenthesis, since a filesystem is a placeholder for files, then a user can potentially carry out harmful operations on that filesystem, such as delete files.