In Tham Kine Seng's email, 10-05-2001: > Hello people, > I had mounted a windows partition. Now I am trying to give "write" > permission to my user to this windows partition. Anybody knows how to > go about giving this permission? > > All suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thank you. > > ===== > Cheers, > Just Me!! > I created a new group 'windows' with the `addgroup` command, then mounted it in /etc/fstab as that group with the umask of 007. Then I added myself to the group, of course. At first I was hesitant to add the execute bit, but then I couldn't store executable stuff on the windows partition. mind, I mount it with 'nosuid' to be sure that I don't have any weird hybrid viruses sneaking up on me through windows.. probably paranoia on my part though. -- Michael Janssen - Jamuraa - janssen@cns.uni.edu - jamuraa@base0.net GPG Fingerprint: 87F1 92C4 44AA 4105 B1C4 EDEC D995 9620 C00E 9159
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