On Wednesday 22 January 2003 12:01, Buchan Milne wrote: > Todd Lyons wrote: > > 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. > > IMHO, when dealing with windows features/filesystems, if in doubt, do > what Windows does. Under all versions of windows, all users have write > access to all files on any FAT filesystem. So, IMHO, umask=0.
This is not true. A lot of files are protected by windows and can't be overwritten/deleted in windows. But a bigger problem with the fat files is that it is mounted so all files are executables which makes no sense at all (wine doesn't need it). but it does make it that you can't unzip files on a fat partition. What also is a possibility is check if the fat partition contains a windows dir. If it is only writtable for root otherwise for everybody
