Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 > »Q« wrote: > >> The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the >> drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for >> user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 »Q« wrote: > The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the > drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for > user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both > me, but with different UIDs on the differ

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500, »Q« wrote: > What I'd like is for all files created on the drive to have > permissions 666, but I don't see any way to override > the system umask (0022) for only this drive. If you don't want to change the system umask, and you probably don't, ACLs are the be

[gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-15 Thread »Q«
I promise I googled. I found the question asked quite a bit, but never found a solution. This isn't a Gentoo-specific question, so I marked it [OT]. I have a USB HDD, using ext3, and I'd like all users to be able to have full permissions for any file on it. It's *not* a problem to mount it rw f