On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:35:44AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Bart Szyszka (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:28:50PM -0500): > > On my computer I have root of course and then a normal user. If I go to > > /wind as a normal user and try to delete a file, it gives me a permission > > denied error. If I try creating a file, I get an error too. Given the above > > lines, > > why am I having these problems? > > read the mount manpage, then check out the options uid= gid= and > umask= options for the fat file system. > > FAT knows no permissions, so all linux can do is mount a partition > with all the same permissions. if you pass in an option umask=111, then > everyone should be able to read and write on that partition. just be > careful!
You may also addgroup dos grep dos /etc/group # say it is 123 Then put these options in /etc/fstab: rw,gid=123,umask=002,mode=770 For any $user that is allowed write access: adduser $user dos After that, $user must login again or newgrp for the group membership to become effective. Cheers, Joost
