How to set Gnome automount permissions?

[Vermind]

Hi,
I have a cross-platform game on a Windows partition. Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 do not allow executing files on a NTFS partition when automatically mounted through Nautilus. I would like to know what I need to change to make my system automatically mount NTFS ( and possibly VFAT ) partitions so that the exec bits are set, at least for my user.

I tried

gconftool-2 -t list --list-type string -s /system/storage/default_options/ntfs-3g/mount_options "[defaults, exec]"

with no luck.

Any ideas?

[dino99]

two choices:

- tweak /etc/fstab : add this partition
- install & use mountmanager to set your prefs

[WorMzy]

HOWTO: Mount NTFS partitions with specific ownership/permissions

[Vermind]

thanks for the answers, but if i use fstab, the settings will not apply for any past and future partitions of the given filesystem type. if i connect a bunch of usb hard disks with ntfs, it will not apply to them. I know that udisks or gnome-vfs-mount or whatever its called nowadays has a gconf key that allows setting mount options, i just cannot find it now .... I am happy with any method that lets the automount system that is already there mount them. I.e. I do not want to install extra software to do something that i know is doable without it, and I do not want my partitions automounted on boot or be visible in fstab.
I will look at mountmanager to see what it does later, thanks.

[mc4man]

If you can't find any other way then you can re-build udisks to allow exec's on ntfs and vfat.
Then main issue is that then all .txt files will be marked as executable, that's why the changes were made .
2 seperate source changes - first for vfat, then ntfs.
(check the changlelog to see.

The edit for vfat is straightforward, for ntfs will take a little digging. (never looked here

This was the last version to allow ntfs, and the one that instituted the change for vfat

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.1-2

[Vermind]

Hi,
I found a question that asks how to set the mount options when udisks mounts some partitions (essentially the mechanism I am looking for). I also tried to mount my ntfs partition manually using udisks, but whatever mount options I set are either not "allowed" or just do nothing and the partition is mounted with the default options which are

rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions

I looked into /lib/udev/rules.d, there are some interesting rules there but sadly none of them mention mount options like here. One mentions ntfs, but that is in the context of detecting recovery partitions and not showing them to the user.

Perhaps I will use the fstab workaround if this becomes urgent.
Mountmanager looks good for fstab tweaking and doing the udev things if this becomes the issue.

[mc4man]

Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 do not allow executing files on a NTFS partition

Are you referring to binaires (.exe's) or text files (scripts) or both
They are somewhat treated differently. (.exe's don't need to be 'set', scripts do.

In any event, as far as 'showing' executable on either in both vfat and ntfs this is the current settings in udisk maverick source (udisks-1.0.1+git20100614/src/device.c

/* ---------------------- vfat -------------------- */

static const char *vfat_defaults[] = { "uid=", "gid=", "shortname=mixed", "dmask=0077", "utf8=1", "showexec", NULL };
static const char *vfat_allow[] = { "flush", "utf8=", "shortname=", "umask=", "dmask=", "fmask=", "codepage=", "iocharset=", "usefree", "showexec", NULL };
static const char *vfat_allow_uid_self[] = { "uid=", NULL };
static const char *vfat_allow_gid_self[] = { "gid=", NULL };

/* ---------------------- ntfs -------------------- */
/* this is assuming that ntfs-3g is used */

static const char *ntfs_defaults[] = { "uid=", "gid=", "dmask=0077", "fmask=0177", NULL };
static const char *ntfs_allow[] = { "umask=", "dmask=", "fmask=", NULL };
static const char *ntfs_allow_uid_self[] = { "uid=", NULL };
static const char *ntfs_allow_gid_self[] = { "gid=", NULL };

What's marked in blue is what's preventing scripts from being executable and .exe's from being set also (even though .exe's don't need to be

As far as scripts - I believe it's all or nothing - either all text files or none. There is no way to set or unset files individually - you can't change/set permissions on ntfs or vfat.

Screens show with blue removed - #3 is an .exe

[Vermind]

Hi and thanks for the response,
I am referring to linux binaries in particular. My current test case is Dwarf Fortress, which I have extracted on my Windows desktop. The directory contains both the Linux and Windows versions. To run dwarf fortress, I would run the shell script called df which in turn starts runs an ELF 32-bit executable. when doing this with the NTFS partition mounted, I get:

/media/OS/Users/Vermind/Desktop/dfg_31_16 
$ sh ./df
./df: 6: ./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: Permission denied

Executing .exe files fails:

/media/OS/Program Files/GIMP 2/bin 
$ ./gimp-2.6.exe
bash: ./gimp-2.6.exe: Permission denied

Of course I can execute them via double-click or just by prepending wine to the command, so they are not the issue. Also text scripts are not an issue since I can prepend sh or bash to them.

I will try the fix and report back.

[Vermind]

The fix pointed out by mc4man works perfectly, thanks. I am able to run the Linux dwarf fortress from the Windows partition.
Now to wait until I have to open text files on the FAT and NTFS partitions or a virus strikes me from them...

The steps I did, to help people in the future:

1. Download the sources via apt-get:
   

   mkdir dev
   cd dev
   apt-get source udisks

2. Modify src/device.c:
   

   cd udisks-1.0.1+git20100614
   gedit src/device.c

   (Remove the parts in blue as shown by mc4man (with the trailing commas).)
   The relevant lines (Line 5870-) will look like this:
   

   static const char *vfat_defaults[] = { "uid=", "gid=", "shortname=mixed", "dmask=0077", "utf8=1",/*"showexec",*/ NULL };
   static const char *vfat_allow[] = { "flush", "utf8=", "shortname=", "umask=", "dmask=", "fmask=","codepage=", "iocharset=", "usefree", /*"showexec",*/ NULL };
   static const char *vfat_allow_uid_self[] = { "uid=", NULL };
   static const char *vfat_allow_gid_self[] = { "gid=", NULL };
   
   /* ---------------------- ntfs -------------------- */
   /* this is assuming that ntfs-3g is used */
   
   static const char *ntfs_defaults[] = { "uid=", "gid=", "dmask=0077", /*"fmask=0177",*/ NULL };
   static const char *ntfs_allow[] = { "umask=", "dmask=", "fmask=", NULL };

3. Download the build deps:
   

   sudo apt-get build-dep udisks

4. Build it via debuild:
   

   debuild

5. Install the package with dpkg:
   

   cd ..
   sudo dpkg -i udisks_1.0.1+git20100614-3_amd64.deb

Note to people having the same problem: Your version of udisks may differ, so substitute everything after udisks- and udisks_ with your version number.

[WorMzy]

I just run DF from my Linux partition.

You don't need to worry about viruses being on the NTFS partition, unless they're designed for Linux and for some reason you decide to run them with sudo. :P