Re: file permisions

[John Dean <nospam [at] rygannon.screaming.net>]

You can not change the file/directory permissions on VFAT they are fixed by
Windoze/DOS.
I think there is a HOWTO covering this topic
John

----- Original Message -----
From: ross <ros.h [at] virgin.net>
To: sheflug <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 4:35 PM
Subject: file permisions

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> can anyone help?
>
> i'm stuck with with file permisions for vfat file systems.
> i want to configure the home directory for a standard user on a vfat
> file system but i can't set the file permisions to rw for users (root
> has the access i want but i don't want to run as root)
> i'm running suse 6.3 i've tried setting it via fstab file / yast / kde's
> kfstab and manually with chmod rwx and chmod 777. the books have been of
> little help as the file permisions seem to be automatically checked. i
> found a setting for this check in yast which i switched off. i changed
> the file settings in mtab. during bootup, a message apears showing the
> file permissions reverting back to the previous settings. rw noexec
> nosuid nodev
>
> any idea's?
>
> ross
>
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