How to allow other than root to write to external mount

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rnrstar
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How to allow other than root to write to external mount

Post by rnrstar » 2018/07/18 17:42:27

I've got a server running Centos 6.6 and I'm trying to mount an external windows share so that a process can write to it but it appears that only root has permissions to write (rwx-r-r). Using chmod to change the permissions doesn't do anything. How can I mount the share and allow another user to write to it?

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Re: How to allow other than root to write to external mount

Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/18 18:06:11

First off, don't run out of date and obsolete releases. You are approximately 4 years behind on maintenance - CentOS 6.10 is current and is just a yum update away. There have been some really serious security problems in the last 4 years and if you are on 6.6 then you have none of the fixes for those.

When you mount cifs shares you can tell it at mount time who should own the mount - see man mount.cifs for details.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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