[CentOS] Limiting fuse-mounted NTFS drive access?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 17:37:47 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5.5 system that is dual-boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows XP
> w/SP3 formatted with NTFS (for the Windows partition, of course).   I
> have installed fuse (ntfs-3g) to allow read/write access to the NTFS
> partition from CentOS.
>
> No regular user has sudo.
>
> What is the best way to limit the access a user logging into the
> CentOS from mangling or changing data in unwanted areas of the
> fuse-mounted NTFS partition?
>
> I presume this would be somewhere in /etc/fstab, but what should the
> mount line say for at least write limitations?

I think that a proper combination of uid=, gid=, umask= for the mount
options would do...

Akemi



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