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by **Michae** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:23:08

I have a Pentium PC set-up to dual boot Win2k and Debian Linux (Potato)
using LILO. I have an NTFS partition set up in fstab that I can read
under Linux. My problem is that I can only read this partition as root.
What is the way to set up permissions up so I can read it as a
normal user? Or, do I have to su everytime I want to read this partition?
Thx,
Michael

by **Kosh Vade** » Thu, 06 Dec 2001 20:07:46

As a general solution for allowing all users to mount the NTFS
filesystem, you could try having a line like this in "/etc/fstab":

<ntfs_part> <mount_point> ntfs ro,user,umask=000,noauto 0 0

or just for one particular user

<ntfs_part> <mount_point> ntfs
ro,user,umask=022,uid=<user_id>,gid=<group_id>,noauto 0 0

where <ntfs_part> is the device file representing the partition
containing the NTFS filesystem (i.e. /dev/hda1), and <mount_point> is
the directory you wish to have the filesystem mounted to, <user_id>
and <group_id> are those ID's associated with a specific user
(obtained from "id <username>").

Chris

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:23:08 -0600, Michael

>I have a Pentium PC set-up to dual boot Win2k and Debian Linux (Potato)
>using LILO. I have an NTFS partition set up in fstab that I can read
>under Linux. My problem is that I can only read this partition as root.
> What is the way to set up permissions up so I can read it as a
>normal user? Or, do I have to su everytime I want to read this partition?
>Thx,
>Michael

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