+++ kghosh [2006-04-18 20:22:20]:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:41 +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> ............
> > mount supports uid/gid/umask values while mounting fat partitions
> >
> > so setting a umask which allows read/write for the group and setting the gid
> > to say "users" and adding all the users to the "users" group if they aren't
> > already in it should solve his problem.
> Already tried that, see my mail. Also man for umask says umask allows to
> set the permissions for
> new files created. I am interested in the existing files.
the FAT file system doesn't have permissions... so passing the umask option
to mount will set a fake permission to all files. The permission is set at
mount time.
You should be reading man mount.. not man umask.
Kingsly
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