Re: Permissions on a vfat partition
Hi
I use
/dev/hda7 /data vfat rw,users,auto,gid=106,umask=003 0 0
with any other users in the 106 group. You still have a bit of control but its
not such a pain in the ass.
Wayne
On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- kenneth dombrowski <kenneth@ylayali.net> escribió:
> > On 03-08-23 03:30 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > > You are not telling it who owns all the files. FAT has no concept of
> >
> > users,
> >
> > > groups, or other attributes (aside from RW and RO). You must specify
> > > the
> >
> > UID
> >
> > > or GID (uding gid=xxxx) you want assigned to all files on the file
> > > system
> >
> > when
> >
> > > it is mounted.
> > >
> > > /dev/hda7 /mnt/d vfat rw,user,uid=1000,noexec 0
> > > 0
> >
> > that is, if you're concerned about restricting access at all, correct?
> >
> > I've seen this response before & have always been a little confused. I
> > dual boot a laptop with win2k & just have the following in my /etc/fstab
> >
> > /dev/hda1 /windows vfat noauto,user 0 0
> >
> > I can `mount /windows` and write to it just fine
> >
> > kenneth@enlil:~$ echo "test">/windows/test.txt
> > kenneth@enlil:~$ ls -l /windows
> > [ ...other stuff.. ]
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 kenneth kenneth 5 Aug 23 00:46 test.txt
> >
> > I don't think I'm in any special windows-writing groups:
> > kenneth@enlil:~/tmp$ groups
> > kenneth adm cdrom audio www-data src video xcdwrite scsi www-adm
> >
> > for a laptop nobody else in the world is ever going to use, just
> > specifying 'user' is fine.. right?
> >
> > (I've given this out as advice before, so I just want to clarify, but if
> > I'm correct, the OP may be interested too)
> >
> > thanks,
> > Kenneth
>
> You are also correct. If you use the "user" option, then whoever mounts
> the partition gets ownership, but then you must also use "noauto,"
> otherwise the partition is mounted on boot and is owned by root.
>
> -Roberto
>
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