Re: [Gnump3d-users] Root on another partition

[Paulo Moura Guedes]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:11:37 you wrote:
> On Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 19:15:50 +0000, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote:
> > I have all my music in a different partition than home. It's mounted
> > on "/mnt/data":
> >
> > drwxrwx--- 12 root plugdev 32768 1970-01-01 01:00 data
> >
> > "plugdev" is a group, to which my user belongs. I have read and write
> > access to that directory (and subdirs).
> >
> > However, with /mnt/data as root dir, I can only make it work with user =
> > root.
>
>   Yes, since user 'gnump3d' doesn't have permission to read that
>  directory.

I tried with my user ("mourao") which, as I said, belongs to plugdev.

> > Can you reproduce this? If yes, any workaround besides starting the
> > daemon as root?
>
>   Add 'gnump3d' to the group 'plugdev'.  Or fix the permissions of
>  the mountpoint.

The permissions are managed by the distribution and I would like it to keep it 
that way... anyway I don't understand why my user "mourao" doesn't work.

Thanks for your reply
Paulo