I have two user accounts on this system and yesterday after noticing a few issues in this account I logged into the other account to see if they existed there. Long story short they don’t. I then proceeded to start to set it up for use till Plasma 5.20 drops and I can just do a fresh install of EOS then, but I noticed that I had to use “Ownership To Active User” under Root Actions in Dolphin to move and or copy items on my secondary drives / partitions. No big deal till I logged back into my main user account and realized I had to give myself ownership there again. I’m assuming a single fstab file is shared between the two profiles cause all my mount points were exactly the same in the secondary profile as they are in my main user account. My question is simply is there a way to have full ownership of the drives / partitions regardless of which user account I’m in without having to take ownership again each time I switch user accounts? Thanks
WARNING:
Only use the command in my last post in this thread if you’re the only user of the computer OR you don’t care who has access to those files.
You’ll have to explain, cause the only time I look at fstab is as below.
Install OS
Do any updates needed
Install Gparted & Gnome-Disk
Go into /mnt/ create my folders named for the secondary drives / partitions
Open one of the newly created folders and copy it’s address
Launch Disk and find the item matching that folders name
Unmount if needed
Click settings and edit the mount options to point to that folder
Then mount
Then refresh the folder to verify it populated and is mounted properly
Then once all mounts have been fixed I open fstab and look for any lines that need to be removed
I did go to properties, permissions, for Docs and added named user for the second account. I won’t know if that works for a while cause I’m copying some files and it’s got at least 30 minutes longer before it’s done.
Yes, I guess so. Do it at least for one partition and check if it mounts alright by sudo mount -a. Logout and log in to your second user account an see if you have the correct permissions.
OK I’ll do that in a hour or so cause the file copying still has roughly an hour to go. In the meantime figures crossed and either way it works out thanks a lot, much appreciated.
OK guess I should of gone with my gut instinct. Added user, for Docs and no love. Went by into the main account, rightclicked Docs, properties, permissions, Advanced Permissions, add enrty, and selected alientest under named user. Only issue is that if in alientest I can’t access those options, but as long as I can do it from alienprober I should be good. Thanks for the help and input.
I am not sure but perhaps instead of using chown to change the ownership you need to look into chmod to change permissions for an specific file/folder.