<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Tom Warren <<a href="mailto:tomewarren%2Bgrlug@gmail.com">tomewarren+grlug@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">>> As the user (non-root) can you list the contents of the Filesystem? Are we<br>
>> maybe dealing with an ACL? Run "getfacl /disk2" before and after you mount<br>
>> the drive and post the output.<br>
>><br>
>> Tom<br>
><br>
> Before mounting:<br>
><br>
> # file: disk2<br>
> # owner: me<br>
> # group: me<br>
> user::rwx<br>
> group:: r-x<br>
> other::r-x<br>
><br>
> After mounting:<br>
><br>
> # file: disk2<br>
> # owner: root<br>
> # group: root<br>
> user::rwx<br>
> group::r-x<br>
> other::r-w<br>
><br>
><br>
> So the mount process does indeed change<br>
> permissions, but this should not change a<br>
> couple of key things:<br>
><br>
> 1) Konqueror works fine. I can view the<br>
> contents of /disk2 as expected.<br>
><br>
> 2) The permissions are 755, so I should be<br>
> able to at least view the contents of disk2<br>
> in any case.<br>
><br>
> 3) I can view the contents of /disk2 one<br>
> file at a time. e.g., if I enter file:///disk2/myfile.html<br>
> as the URL to Firefox, the contents are displayed.<br>
> It's only when I enter file:///disk2 that I get a blank<br>
> page.<br>
><br>
> At this point it does seem that Firefox requires<br>
> some kind of permissions that just aren't there.<br>
> I tried changing "owner" to "me", but nothing<br>
> changed - I still cannot view the contents of /disk2.<br>
><br>
> I can view the contents of any directory owned<br>
> by root on the primary drive. Just not /disk2.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>I'm not sure if enumerating a directory's contents requires read,<br>
execute or both. Also, what steps did you take to change the owner to<br>
yourself? Did you use the uid= and gid= mount options, or did you<br>
chown after the mount?<br>
<br>
Also try adding the mount to fstab with the requisite options to allow<br>
non-root users to mount it, and see if that fixes it.<br>
<br>
It may be worthwhile to file a bug report with your distro's bug<br>
tracker; They'll fix it locally and push the fix up to mainstream.<br>
(Unless it's Debian, in which case they'll just fix it locally; Their<br>
Seamonky codebase has deviated significantly from Firefox.)<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote><div>chown after the mount. I also tried "-o owner,group".<br>This allows non-root users to mount things on /disk2.<br><br>Indeed, if it's clear it is a bug, rather than something<br>I'm doing, it's worth a report. Some of the things you<br>
mention seem to require that the options be set in<br>fstab, and I haven't played around with that. <br><br>Anyway, for now, with the simply mount I usually<br>do for backups:<br><br>mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb7 /disk2<br>
<br>konqueror lists the contents of the mounted drive, <br>Firefox does not. Firefox can deal with items in<br>the directory. That's where it stands now.<br><br>Some day I can try Seamonkey. I use it on a<br>machine running Puppy Linux.<br>
<br> -- Bob<br><br></div></div><br>