On Sun, July 27 at 12:51 AM EDT Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT >> Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[AutoFS problem] > >> I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's >i> use this type or entry in fstab >> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win98 vfat >defaults,gid=6,umask=002> >> then as long as I am in group 6 ( disk on my box ) I have read >access...> The key is the umask portion and equates to permissions of >775 or> rwxrwxr-x in case you aren't familiar with umask. > >I hope you know that being in the disk group as a user can be a severe >security risk.It allows you direct read/write access to all your IDE >and SCSI hard disk (for example with dd). If you are in group disk, the >filesystem mechanisms that protect you from accidentially destroying >your system can become useless. > >best regards > Andreas Janssen Point taken - since this is my home box I do a lot of admin tasks under my user id and am about as careful as I am with root. IIRC I did this originally to allow myself to burn CD's and b/c I used my Windows HD's as storage for music etc... and needed to access it frequently which is not an admin function. Believe me, I always stop and pray before typing "dd" anywhere! Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
