Re: chmod on vfat

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:

 : Only root can write to a vfat partition.  I suppose because vfat
 : contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on
 : a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it.  Any
 : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat
 : partition?

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.

Have fun ...

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