Re: chmod on vfat

[Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au>]

> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:
...
>  : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat
>  : partition?
> 
Nathan E Norman:
> Yeah, use an fstab entry like this (this is ntfs but applies to
> vfat/msdos also afaik)
> 
>   /dev/hda1 /ntdrv1 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,umask=002 0 2  
>   /dev/hda2 /ntdrv2 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,umask=002 0 2  
> 
> In this case we allow the group "staff" write access; any user has read
> access. You could change the umask to mean that only staff has read
> access, and that normal users have no access whatsoever.

Note that no matter the permissions, only the owner of a file can do
certain operations to do with the 'inode'.

Every now and then, I need to create a file with a particular date, and I
want to do it on a smbfs drive. To do that, I need to become the owner (in
my case 'lan') or root.


Jiri
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