[OhioYJ]

So all my data, is on a truecrypt encrypted partition. When was running PCLinux08, you had to mount the truecrypt drive as root, then under my regular user name I could at least read the drive, just couldn't make any changes, but, I could make changes through the root terminal, which was tolerable.

Now since I've updated to PCLinux09, I can mount the truecrypt drive, but my user account can't see the folder at all. I can run nautilus as a super user, and view the folder, but then the problem is that a bunch of my videos are flash video that need to be played in VLC which can't be run as root?

Any kind of work around? Truecrypt used to have a -u (user mode) to make users able to access the drive, but that doesn't work anymore.

I need a way for VLC to run under a root account? Or a way to make my regular user account read the truecrypt drive. CHMOD and CHOWN don't seem to work for some reason on the truecrypt partition, I'm not sure why. This happens across 3 machines, so it's not just the one encrypted drive.

[sarcastic_bastard]

Not used truecrypt, so can't offer much of help there, but flash plays fine under totem, no need for VLC, so perhaps try loading Totem to play these, at least as a temp measure?

[OhioYJ]

Thanks for the reply. I installed Totem, it wants a "flash demuxer" to play the files? I didn't find anything in synaptic for that?

[bit_flipper]

Truecrypt used to have a -u (user mode) to make users able to access the drive, but that doesn't work anymore.

Issue commands:

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su
visudo


EDIT/Change section FROM:

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# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL


TO:

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# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
<userID>    ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/truecrypt


Where: <userID> in your case would be OhioYJ (your login user id) on the line you insert. Example:

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OhioYJ    ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/truecrypt

WARNING: Using command visudo implies that you know how to
use the vi editor. If you don't know how to use the vi editor, I suggest that you learn by first practising on a test text file before attempting to use command visudo.

The following man pages may be of interest to you:
vi(1) or vim(1)
visudo(8)
sudoers(5)

[OhioYJ]

Issue commands:

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su
visudo


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Many thanks, my hat's off to you kind sir. You have solved a problem I've been working around for quite a while now in Linux. Everything works great now, I can mount the truecrypt drive as a normal user and play my video files in VLC without issue. Great Solution. Thanks again!