Re: [Sheflug] "Permissions" problem?

[Ruth Gunstone <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20020814131758.GE19179 [at] courgette.jml.net>
          Chris Butler <chrisb [at] courgette.jml.net> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> The permissions for FAT filesystems are set when the filesystem is mounted,
> so it tends to be set up in /etc/fstab.
> 
> The options you need to look at are 'uid', 'gid' and 'umask'. If you want
> everyone on the machine to have r/w access to the windows filesystem, you
> could just use "umask=0", which would allow any account on the machine to
> read and write to any files on the partition.
[snip]
In message <20020814120216.GA1780 [at] shef.ac.uk>
          José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

[snip]
>     Usually, the windows partition will be mounted with read only privs for
> users and readwrite for root. There are ways to sort it out with mandrake's
> tools, if I remember correctly, but a visit to /etc/fstab will prove
> useful. Again, if memory serves, you need to ask umask=0 at the end of the
> line (before the 0 0 entries).
[snip]


Hmmm, thanks for the suggestions.

I've just had a look at etc/fstab, and it reads as follows:

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 
none/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0  /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859 -15 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2
/mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8 859-15 0
0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15, umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0  none
/proc proc defaults 0 0  /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0


As you can see, umask already = 0 for all of the hda partitiions!

What now?!

Cheers!

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Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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