Re: Mount problems
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:57:57PM -0500, harshu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> ->>
> ->> I am facing this problem with mounting vfat partitions. I have
> ->> a directory named /cdrive and mount my vfat partions on it. As root
> ->> user
> ->> or as an odinary user the permissons of cdrive always get changed to
> ->> 744. I have tried changing the permisions to 777 as root user but I am
> ->> unable to do so. It just refuses.
> ->
> ->(Don't you mean 755 (rwxr-xr-x)? 744 is rwxr--r--. Hint: think binary:
> ->rwxr--r-- -> 111100100 (binary) -> 744 (octal) )
>
> Since the drive was getting mounted at startup it mounts with root as
> the owner and group. So wanted to put 777 so that an odinary user to
> actually mv files to that partition. Since I am the only person using
> the computer I figured putting 777 was okay.
Not so good if you get hacked.
> However no matter what combination I try as any user it just refuses
> to let me set the permissions as 755. The permissions that it sets at
> mount time (mounting as root or odinary user) is 744 and I can't
> change it to 755.
>
> I have tried setting 777 before mounting but it reverts back 744.
>
> Although the problem is partially solved with changing the option auto
> in fstab to noauto, I didn't quite understand why I can't change
> permissions of the mount point.
Try the following options list in /etc/fstab:
noauto,user,exec,umask=022 - see man mount for details.
Pigeon
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