Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

[Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, keitho@strucktower.com wrote:

Hi,

> I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in
> man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pam ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

man 2 umask is in manpages-dev in case that's not installed on your
system currently.

'help umask' and/or the manpage of your shell might be of some help too.

HTH
Sven
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