[nmglug] change permissions on USB drive

[Nick Frost]

brianokeefe wrote:
> I know that this is pretty fundamental but here's what I have:
> debian:/media# ls -l
> total 12
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2007-10-03 07:56 cdrom -> cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-03 07:56 cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-11 17:44 disk
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2007-10-03 07:57 floppy -> floppy0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-03 07:57 floppy0
> 
> I would like to change permissions on disk to be used by group me
> (brianokeefe) as well as others to be read and write.

Well, if group brianokeefe exits, then it's as simple as

chown root:brianokeefe

chmod 777 disk

though you might want the sticky bit, which you can add with

chmod o+t testfile

which should allow only the user who created the file to delete it.

if group brianokeefe does not exist, you would first need;

groupadd brianokeefe

Hope that helps.

-Nick




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