Can't share /mnt/volume Other Part

[mhz]

Very interesting answers you all. I actually had the same problem for 
quite some time.

Please let me take the chance to ask a little more...

I know it is possible to change the default "home" directory for all 
new users with
% useradd -d /other_home/newuser

1) but is it also possible to make that /mnt/hfs_volume the default new 
home?
2) how can root move all existing users files and directories to this 
new home without changing current "health"?

Should have I asked this in a different mail?
Sorry but I thought we could go a little deeper.

Regards from Chile

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 14:41 America/Santiago, Longman, Bill 
wrote:

>> How do I allow users, other than ROOT, to SEE, and USE, the
>> contents of
>> mounted volumes? Along a similar vein, why is it that, at
>> start up (when
>> all the linux text is scrolling past my screen,"Updating /etc/fstab"
>> always fails?\Any ideas?
>
> Ned, it's certainly typical for filesystems to be mounted only by 
> root. You
> can add the "user" flag in the fstab file as one of the mount options 
> on a
> given filesystem. Then whoever mounts it can unmount it. You can go 
> crazy
> and use the "users" option, too. Then any ole user can mount and 
> unmount at
> will. Sometimes this is not advisable....
>
> In your case, you need to mount the filesystem on an existing 
> directory. For
> instance, if in your fstab it says:
>
> /dev/hda9 /mnt/volume hfs auto 1 1
>
> then you'll have to make sure the /mnt/volume directory exists. 
> Furthermore,
> the lone empty directory, /mnt/volume, as it exists *in the root 
> directory*
> has its own permissions separate and distinct from the permissions 
> that the
> filesystem acquires once it gets mounted there.
>
> Look what happens when I mount my ISO image:
>
> $ cd /
> $ ls -ld cd1
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root   4096 Jul  2 10:45 cd1/
> $ mount /cd1
> $ ls -ld cd1
> dr-xr-xr-x    9 root   root   4096 Mar 17 08:05 cd1/
>
> This might help you solve the problem of getting others to mount and 
> use
> filesystems. I don't know why the /etc/fstab error is appearing at 
> boot,
> though. I suspect it might be from system device probes trying to add
> available entries in there (like USB drives, etc.).
>
> Bill
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