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Pixel wrote on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:05:58AM +0100 :
>
> > The value of umask(=0) makes many system files on the FAT32
> > partition writable by a non-root linux user. This is very
> > undesirable and risky. In the extreme case, a well-designed linux
> > virus can easily damage the windows system files !! The proper
> > solution to this is to change the umask value to 022 so that only
> > root has write access to the FAT32 system.
> umask=0 is what people want AFAIK...
> cooker people, WYT?
Nearly every problem that someone has when trying to save files to a FAT
partition is because they don't realize they need to be root. Should we
protect them from possible bad things and make it umask=022, or should
we allow them to do things like their old OS did? I personally vote to
allow them to have access as a regular user. I know it's not secure,
but it cuts a lot of support needs.
Blue skies... Todd
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