Petty issues like this should be taken to private email, kids....
-Necro
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Joe Perry wrote:
> > This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to
> > write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I
> > don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone
> > system and I'm the only user anyway.
> >
> The umask parameter in /etc/fstab is the inverse of the chmod permission mask
> for all files in this directory. By default the files are readable and
> writeable by the user mounting the partition(if root mounts the partition,
> either on boot or later, then root is the ONLY user that can read and write to
> this directory). Your non-root user does not have access, this is irrespective
> to the permissions before mounting.
>
> umask = 0 : this directory is writable by everybody( permissions 777)
> umask = 7 : this directory is writable by the owner and his group ONLY;
> umask = 77 : this directory is writable by the owner ONLY;
>
> I would choose one of these based on who and when the partition is mounted
> and who you wish access to. I would not recommend the first one on a networked
> computer.
>
> You can override the owner and group of the mounted partition using the
> uid and gid parameters.
> Joseph H. Perry
> Oracle DBA
> Columbus State University
> 4225 University Ave
> Columbus, GA 31907-5645
> (706) 568-2063
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