Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 3/13/2013 7:31:19 PM Subject: Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive] > João Luis Meloni Assirati wr

Re: Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
> João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has >> to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it >> is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service >> communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, >

Itroductry info on permission issues and implications - where? -was [Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive]

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Owlett
João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: [snip] Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However, if User mounts it

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 13 March 2013 14:55:01 João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > Em 13-03-2013 07:37, Lisi Reisz escreveu: > > On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Em 13-03-2013 07:37, Lisi Reisz escreveu: On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:58:16 John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > > cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access > > denied" to most files an

Re: permissions on a Verbatim USB external drive

2013-03-12 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:31:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The Verbatim belongs to User, and needs to function on his box. But it > cannot be written to from his box, even as root, and returns "access denied" > to most files and directories that I try to copy over. What is the filesystem