Re: setting umask for an nfs mount
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:05:30AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Shri Shrikumar said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:00:25PM +0100:
> > I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does
> > not give any help since nfs doesnt seem to have the umask option.
> >
> > Any ideas on what I could do to acheive this ? BTW, I am running testing
> > / unstable.
>
> The umask is a per-process setting, not a per mount setting.
There is a 'umask' mount option that's used for FAT filesystems because
they're too weak to support Unix-style permissions. It shouldn't be
necessary for NFS, though - just change the permissions on disk, surely?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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