On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:57:57PM -0500, harshu wrote: > Hi, > > > ->> > ->> I am facing this problem with mounting vfat partitions. I have > ->> a directory named /cdrive and mount my vfat partions on it. As root > ->> user > ->> or as an odinary user the permissons of cdrive always get changed to > ->> 744. I have tried changing the permisions to 777 as root user but I am > ->> unable to do so. It just refuses. > -> > ->(Don't you mean 755 (rwxr-xr-x)? 744 is rwxr--r--. Hint: think binary: > ->rwxr--r-- -> 111100100 (binary) -> 744 (octal) ) > > Since the drive was getting mounted at startup it mounts with root as > the owner and group. So wanted to put 777 so that an odinary user to > actually mv files to that partition. Since I am the only person using > the computer I figured putting 777 was okay.
Not so good if you get hacked. > However no matter what combination I try as any user it just refuses > to let me set the permissions as 755. The permissions that it sets at > mount time (mounting as root or odinary user) is 744 and I can't > change it to 755. > > I have tried setting 777 before mounting but it reverts back 744. > > Although the problem is partially solved with changing the option auto > in fstab to noauto, I didn't quite understand why I can't change > permissions of the mount point. Try the following options list in /etc/fstab: noauto,user,exec,umask=022 - see man mount for details. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
