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Olliver K
Asked: 2016-03-10 17:52:57 +0800 CST

Access 2nd internal HDD as guest Ubuntu 15.10

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I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu 15.10. I have my music stored on a separate internal (NTFS) HDD along with other files. Is there anyway to let Guest accounts access the music folder and ONLY the music folder on the second drive?

fstab gives access to the entire drive, so that is too much. It's not over a network so Samba isn't the answer either. I saw a post about gaining access using an Admin password but I'm never prompted for that and this is on a separate disk so it might be different. 2nd HDD automounts fine, I just can't get into it as a Guest user. Path to 2nd HDD is /mnt/(drive name). Owner listed as root.

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    Got it. /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lightdm was indeed the answer. It needed two lines of code:

    /mnt/DriveName/Music/ r,
/mnt/DriveName/Music/** rmlix

    Save the file and reparse:

    sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/lightdm-guest-session

    To edit lightdm, I suppose 

    sudo nano /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lightdm

    would've worked but I made a text editor to operate as root: How to run programs as root user without using Terminal

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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