On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:45:42PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > #! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > > >Mounting worked. By repeating the command I assume you meant > >'chown -R sue /mnt/dosE'. If so, that failed as it traversed the > >subdirectories of the partition. > > > ? Its meant to get all the subdirectories. > > As root do this: > Make sure the partition /is/ correctly mounted. Remenber that FAT > doesn't have that many security options so if its correctly mounted, > this should be easy. >
AFAIK it doesn't have *any* filesystem security, hence the difficulties is setting permissions and ownership... If that partition has no other users, why not try adding the uid and gid options to /etc/fstab? That will effectively make all files on the partition appear to have the owner sue... > cd /mnt > chown sue dosE > chown -R sue /mnt/dosE/* > chmod 777 dosE > chmod 777 dose/* > > Now unless dosE is on another machine which is setting permissions that > cannot be overwritten, Sue will be able to read and write to /mnt/dosE. -- PGP public key is available by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line 'Public Key' or from www.keyservers.net
