devices seen

[pinguin]

hi,
im a new linux mint's user and I noticed this probleem:
my pc has 2 partition: 1windows and the other LM and, when i'm in the linux os, in the fold "devices" i can see the other partition and the other files

[Cosmo.]

What is the problem?

[axrusar]

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[pinguin]

What is the problem?

different people use the pc: the windows os and the linux os.
person A has an account on Win. os.
Person B has an account on LM os and searching in the folders can see all files on the windows partition (searching in users)

[pinguin]

Congratulations @Penguin!!!
You created the topic number 77777 in the Beginner's section of this forum

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[Nikolai5]

What is the problem?

Person B has an account on LM os and searching in the folders can see all files on the windows partition (searching in users)

Does that person need to have admin access? If they were a regular user you could set the system to not automount the windows partition and then the user won't be able to mount it because that requires admin permissions.

I assume the issue is that you don't want user B from being able to see the files of the other person?

[pinguin]

What is the problem?

Person B has an account on LM os and searching in the folders can see all files on the windows partition (searching in users)

Does that person need to have admin access? If they were a regular user you could set the system to not automount the windows partition and then the user won't be able to mount it because that requires admin permissions.

I assume the issue is that you don't want user B from being able to see the files of the other person?

Yes, userB (LM os) should not be able to see all files stored in the windows partition's users.
All users (windows and linux) have account protected by pw

[Nikolai5]

Yes, userB (LM os) should not be able to see all files stored in the windows partition's users.
All users (windows and linux) have account protected by pw

What about my proposed solution, did you miss it? Does that user need to be an admin user? You could create a standard user for them so that they don't have permission to access those things.

[sakamitz]

What is the problem?

different people use the pc: the windows os and the linux os.
person A has an account on Win. os.
Person B has an account on LM os and searching in the folders can see all files on the windows partition (searching in users)

If the LM user has root access, they can see whatever they want to see in Windows partition.

So the best solution is as Nick suggested, create a regular user in LM for person B to use

[pinguin]

Yes, userB (LM os) should not be able to see all files stored in the windows partition's users.
All users (windows and linux) have account protected by pw

What about my proposed solution, did you miss it? Does that user need to be an admin user? You could create a standard user for them so that they don't have permission to access those things.

ok. thanks.
but I don't understand the tecnical passages to do it

[mikeflan]

but I don't understand the tecnical passages to do it

You start by launching "Users and Groups" from the start menu.

[MiZoG]

Unless things can be done differently now from what I remember, it is not enough to limit other users to "standard" accounts in order to hide ntfs partitions from them on Linux.
You had to hide the partitions from users, make them "secret" and/or edit fstab on top of that but don't know if and how the new ntfs driver has changed that.

[pinguin]

You had to hide the partitions from users, make them "secret" and/or edit fstab on top of that but don't know if and how the new ntfs driver has changed that.

did you mean before I installed linux (or while i was installing)?

[MiZoG]

After the installation