On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: [ snip ]
: michf >If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to regular : michf >users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows partition : michf >as the home directory for a user? : : you can, but i dont reccomend it. File permissions are not available on : FAT16/FAT32 file systems. so you'd have no security, anyone could : read/write/delete anything. you could use the UMSDOS file system, which : would give experimental support for permissions on a FAT16/32 drive but i : wouldnt reccomend that either. Hmm. You can mount a FAT partition so that read and write permissions are limited by user or group. Check out the gid and uid options under the FAT section of the mount manpage. I used to mount my second VFAT partition under my home dir this way; no one else could access it (other than root). If you're willing to give up symlinks and the ability to _change_ permissions within that partition, it works well. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
