On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Robert G. Scofield wrote: [snip] > Yes, thank you Bill. Here's the Ken Bloom creation: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat > defaults,uid=1000,fmask=177,dmask=077 > > Remember, I don't know what any of this means after the "vfat" entry. [snip]
Change the stuff after vfat to: defaults,uid=1000,gid=win,fmask=117,dmask=007 (Add a "gid" entry, and modify fmask/dmask fields). This will allow any user in the group "win" to read/write to/from the /mnt/windows directory. Explanation: The "gid" sets the group that /mnt/windows will be mounted in; "fmask" sets the `chmod` of all the files within /mnt/windows; and the "dmask" sets the `chmod` of all the directories within /mnt/windows. But to do this, you first need to create a group named "win": addgroup win then add "bob" and "research" to that group: adduser bob win adduser research win I think I got the syntaxes right. You can't simply `chmod` /mnt/windows or anything underneath because VFAT has no concept of permissions, at least not to the fine detail that UNIX has. And you can't `chmod` /mnt/windows before mounting the partition because the mounting point permission takes on the permission of what is mounted on it after the mounting. So to resolve this problem, you can set the permission of *all* the files and *all* the directories of a VFAT partition as you mount it, which is what we did above. Questions? -- "mail vox"! -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
