On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > >>>>> "ace22b" == ace22b <ace22b@yahoo.com> writes: > > >>>>> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Eduard> Put "umask=000" to the other options in /etc/fstab. "man > Eduard> mount" will tell you more about needed options, eg. gid or > Eduard> uid. > > ace22b> I know it's '000', but why ? > > ace22b> Why not 666? I was rather puzzled by this a couple of years > ace22b> ago... > > Umask is the `reverse' of the permissions. If a bit is set in the > umask, it means `don't set this bit in the permissions of a new > file/directory'. > > So, using umask=0 will give you all permissions bits set. Ah, I c. That makes sense. Thanks alot. > > -- > G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 > Home: <ggeens@iname.com> - Work: <guy.geens@cgey.be> > WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ > `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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