SICK OF STUPID OWNERSHIP RULES!!

[kwhiskers]

I guess Goodwin's Law didn't kill this thread, as there was another posting 
after it was invoked ;-)

Sorry, guy (you who started this thread), that you are frustrated with the 
permissions and yur inability to get them to do what you want. I did not 
follow your thread from the beginning, so I do not know what your specific 
concern is. However, I can talk about my own experience, which might help 
you along the road to understanding.

When I began, I also had some difficulties getting it set up - by default - 
to do what I wanted, which in my case was full access for ME, as it is MY 
computer and ALL of the data is MINE. Period.

Well, a long time of fiddling and chmod-ding the permissions of files 
finally lead to an understanding of the setting of a default umask in 
/etc/bashrc and my problems have vanished.

I had to go back and correct the permissions of the existing data, but all 
new files created now automatically have the permission I want and I feel 
that my data is secure.

I created a guest account on my system to verify this. I cannot look at the 
material in guest and guest cannot get at my stuff, but both of us can use 
the data (the cliparts, mp3, etc).

I am not sure what yu are/were trying to achieve, but this has worked very 
well for me after a bit of perseverance, learning and fiddling. And I feel 
my data is secure and I can allow a guest to use my system without me having 
to worry that he might accidentally delete my music files, for example.

Permissions allow you to do all of this.

On 4/20/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> Kevin wrote:
> 
> > And don't bother flaming me because I am unregistering
> > from the list, removing Fedora from my computers, and
> > moving to a more stable (non-perpetual beta) OS which
> > gave me less headaches and stress.
> >
> > Bye Bye :)
> 
> People like you leaving the list don't make much of a difference. Its 
> better
> to have lazy and cowards out who take everything for granted without even
> trying to read plain english.
> 
> Your problem had only one option required to work. FAT32's can be mounted
> with the 'umask' option.
> umask=0000 would have solved your problem.
> 
> Bye Bye
> 
> rrs
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