thanks Leonard, setting the umask in fstab worked like a charm :) Doug
----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard den Ottolander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: chmod on vfat > Hi Doug, > > > i have 3 partitions that are formatted fat32 (w2k), I have fstab set to = > > auto mount with defaults. the permissions by default are 755, when i try = to > > chmod to 775 or 777 it doesn't change, it stays at 755. How can i = change them > > so that when i'm logged in as a user i can write to these = drives? or am I > > stuck with with just using root to write to these = drives? > > Try mounting them using > umask=000 > in the options section. If you don't like the files being shown as executables > use "showexec" or "noexec". showexec seems to work like "noexec", except for > files with a DOS executable extension. Fe, the shell script foo will not run, > but if you copy foo to foo.exe the latter will be executable. Also see man > mount. > > Bye, > Leonard. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
