usb mounting permissions

[Richard Grant]

I am mounting my usb with:

 sudo mount "/dev/sdb1" "/opt/lampp/htdocs/"

This will mount my usb to the folder htdocs but obviously i am having permission issues because when i go to my localhost (web browser) it says:

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Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

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How can i fix this issue?

[Richard Grant]

I THINK the issue is this:

 ls -ld htdocs

Returns: 

drwx------ 9 richard richard 4096 Dec 31  1969 htdocs

 

When ORGINALLY it returns: (this is what i need the permissions to be with read and write access)

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct  2 21:04 htdocs

[Haggis Veteran]

try

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/ -o umask=000

[Richard Grant]

try

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/ -o umask=000

didn't work output:

drwx------  9 richard richard    4096 Dec 31  1969 htdocs

i need it to output:

drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Oct 2 21:04 htdocs

[Haggis Veteran]

For NTFS file system:

You should edit the fstab file. Type the following in terminal:

 

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

At the bottom of the fstab file paste the following:

/dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

For FAT 16/32 file system run the following in terminal:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs -o uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

[Richard Grant]

ok is it fat32 or ntfs?

fat32

-t vfat

[Haggis Veteran]

see post above :)

[Richard Grant]

see post above :)

still did not work:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs -o uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

drwx------  9 richard richard    4096 Dec 31  1969 htdocs

 

 

 

i also tried:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /opt/lampp/htdocs -o uid=0,gid=0,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

because:

sudo id

ouput: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

 

 

 

i also tried:

chmod -R 777 /opt/lampp/htdocs

ouput: chmod: changing permissions of '*': Operation not permitted

 

[Haggis Veteran]

is your user a member of www-data

[Richard Grant]

is your user a member of www-data

No how do i set it (i assume it is not because i did not manually set it, so checking if i am first would be nice)

 

I set:

usermod -a -G www-data richard

[Haggis Veteran]

No how do i set it (i assume it is not because i did not manually set it, so checking if i am first would be nice)

 

I set:

usermod -a -G www-data richard

 

I would use 

sudo useradd -g www-data richard

[Richard Grant]

 

I would use 

sudo useradd -g www-data richard

I dont want to make a new account, i already have an account called richard

[Max Norris]

I dont want to make a new account, i already have an account called richard

That doesn't make a new account, it's adding you to the group www-data, although isn't -g setting the primary group? 

[Richard Grant]

That doesn't make a new account, it's adding you to the group www-data, although isn't -g setting the primary group? 

When i use useradd i get the output:

useradd: user 'richard' already exists

 

so user add does create a new user

 

 

And when i modify the group i get:

drwx------  2 richard www-data    4096 Oct  3 11:13 htdocs

Which is not what i want.

 

I want to mount the USB with the root user and root group so it should read:

drwx------  2 root root    4096 Oct  3 11:13 htdocs

 

 

[Richard Grant]

YES!! after 3 hours i SOLVED IT!

 

Okay its pretty simple.

 

I reformatted with the option:

compatible with linux systems (Ext4)

 

to fix the usermod that Haggis suggested:

sudo usermod -a -G root richard

ejected my usb (correctly)

unplugged and replugged back in

A unity file system window came up with a fold of the name of my usb partition mine was Vault

 

I right clicked

Properties > Permissions

changed all the accessors to:

Create and Delete files

 

 

Ultimately this is what i was trying to do from command line but i couldn't figure out how.