Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-24 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:33:28 -0600 Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:08, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > > It gets covered *many* times because no-one is willing to get over > > to dejanews.com or the debian-user archives and do a quick search. > > It does not merit a

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:33:28AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > Oh, and man pages are practically useless. Rubbish. Maybe some of them could be improved, but inflammatory statements won't get you anywhere. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-24 Thread Brian Gonzales
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:08, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:23:29 -0600 > Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > > > > Or search the archives, this has been covered *many* times. > > > > If it's coevered *many* times

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-24 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:23:29 -0600 Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > > Or search the archives, this has been covered *many* times. > > If it's coevered *many* times, it's obviously an issue that merits > discussion. It gets cover

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-24 Thread Brian Gonzales
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:20, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:08:06 -0400 > Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > > > I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. > > My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can > > access it. Any other user accoun

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-23 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi I use /dev/hda7 /data vfatrw,users,auto,gid=106,umask=003 0 0 with any other users in the 106 group. You still have a bit of control but its not such a pain in the ass. Wayne On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- kenneth dombrowski

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- kenneth dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 03-08-23 03:30 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > You are not telling it who owns all the files. FAT has no concept of > users, > > groups, or other attributes (aside from RW and RO). You must specify the > UID > > or GID (uding gid=)

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread kenneth dombrowski
On 03-08-23 03:30 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > You are not telling it who owns all the files. FAT has no concept of users, > groups, or other attributes (aside from RW and RO). You must specify the UID > or GID (uding gid=) you want assigned to all files on the file system when > it is mou

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > All, > > I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. > My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can access > it. Any other user account gets "Permission denied" when trying to > access anything on the partition. I can't even

RE: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread Sourian
http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0304/msg00433.html Have fun, Sourian -Original Message- From: Rich B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Permissions on a vfat partition All, I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge &a

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread Johann Koenig
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:08:06 -0400 Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. > My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can > access it. Any other user account gets "Permission denied" when > trying to access anything on th

Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread Rich B
All, I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can access it. Any other user account gets "Permission denied" when trying to access anything on the partition. I can't even do an "ls" as a normal user. My fstab entry currently