On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:18, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:05:30AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Shri Shrikumar said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:00:25PM +0100:
> > > I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does
> > > not give any help since nfs doesnt seem to have the umask option.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on what I could do to acheive this ? BTW, I am running testing
> > > / unstable.
> > 
> > The umask is a per-process setting, not a per mount setting.
> 
> There is a 'umask' mount option that's used for FAT filesystems because
> they're too weak to support Unix-style permissions. It shouldn't be
> necessary for NFS, though - just change the permissions on disk, surely?

Yes, but its annoying because, each time a new file is create or cvs
commit is done, all the permissions reset based on the umask and I have
to run chmod again.

Anybody have any solutions for this cos I am very close to writing a
setperms cron job as suggested by Andre.

Best wishes,

Shri

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