> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: ... > : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat > : partition? > Nathan E Norman: > 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.
Note that no matter the permissions, only the owner of a file can do certain operations to do with the 'inode'. Every now and then, I need to create a file with a particular date, and I want to do it on a smbfs drive. To do that, I need to become the owner (in my case 'lan') or root. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
