mgh;202820 Wrote: > So would the next step be along the lines of what bukharin is > describing?
Yes :-) I haven't had time to look into this yet, but I'm quite sure it's a very simple case of changing a umask=277 to umask=022 somewhere in a config file for automounting external drives. If you're motivated, search ubuntu forums for "automount permissions", or do "grep -R umask /etc/*" to see which config file/s might be relevant. (One thing to consider, though - is the drive formatted as vfat or ntfs? If it's ntfs, writing won't work without jumping through additional hoops. If you haven't futzed with it, it should be vfat.) mgh;202820 Wrote: > I would love to start a thread, maybe at Linuxquestions, about Linux and > the ability of a NOOB to use it. My VERY short experience with Ubuntu > and PCLinuxOS is that it will be quite easy to do the easy stuff, > emailing, WWW and so on (I'm also holding out to see what it will take > to hot-sync palm OS with Evolution), however, I can not describe what I > am going through here as easy. I was extremely impressed with how easy > it was for me to install SS using the info from slimdevices page and > synaptic, that was really slick! Yes, that's generally true of Linux vs Windows. Linux is harder to get working, but works better once you've got it working. The default in Windows is to value ease of use over security; the default in Linux is the opposite. Windows automatically gives everyone write access to the external drive; this is very insecure and could lead to data loss, installation of viruses etc. Linux prevents this, but sometimes goes too fat the other way. In my opinion the default settings in Ubuntu are too restrictive - it's primarily a desktop distro for new users, so it's probably unnecessary to make the default permissions on external drives so restrictive. -- bukharin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
