On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: : Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat : contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on : a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat : partition?
Yeah, use an fstab entry like this (this is ntfs but applies to vfat/msdos also afaik) /dev/hda1 /ntdrv1 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,umask=002 0 2 /dev/hda2 /ntdrv2 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,umask=002 0 2 In this case we allow the group "staff" write access; any user has read access. You could change the umask to mean that only staff has read access, and that normal users have no access whatsoever. Have fun ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
