Re: file permisions

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

I do agree, but I just the simple answer. You always use mtools as an
alternative to editing the fstab file.
John

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: sheflug <sheflug [at] listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: file permisions

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> >>>>> John == John Dean <john [at] rygannon.screaming.net> writes:
>
> John> You can set or reset the attributes you want. Win9x/DOS
> John> knows nothing about Linux permissions. The problem is
> John> Win9x/DOS not Linux
>
> AFAIK, you can set DOS permissions, and under Win95 as well. (Dunno
> if you can get at the Archive bit.) It's not like FAT systems are
> incredibly complex.... I don't know what happens with file-sharing,
> but presumably you can do those operations with samba and smbclient.
>
> The problem is that DOS/Win is a _single-user_ system. This means
> that when you mount, you cannot distinguish among users. _But you can
> choose which user.group owns the Win95 file system at mount time,
> there are options uid and gid:
>
> mount -o uid=0,gid=0 -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/garbage
>
> AFAIK, basically the permissions on /mnt/garbage are treated as a
> UMASK against the DOS permissions (ie, you get the minimum of the Unix
> mode bits on /mnt/garbage and the DOS mode bits on a file). Of
> course, just like anywhere else in a Unix FS, you have to be owner or
> root to change permissions.
>
> Alternatively, you can put the user option in /etc/fstab for the
> VFAT partition. Then any user can mount it, and the mounting
> process's uid and gid are the default (you can explicitly set with the
> uid and gid options).
>
> Disclaimer: at my house, I do the nappies; my wife does the Windows.
> I think she has the dirtier job.
>
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