Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 19:41:59 +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:45:27 +0100
> Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
>
> > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit :
> > > Tomas' answer contains *a* solution, for a specific device.
> >
> > Tomas' answer points to the umask mount option. Since all current
> > reasonable methods for accessing an USB stick in FAT end up using the
> > mount system call, it is THE solution.
> >
>
> Conceptually so, but some means of mounting USB sticks do not involve
> the user explicitly issuing a mount command.
A user cannot issue the command 'mount /dev/foo mnt -oumask=000'. Well,
she/he can - but it won't get them anywhere.
--
Brian
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