NTFS issue

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Fri Jul 1 20:09:47 UTC 2005


Hi, Gordon

Use fmask and dmask to define permissions on already existing files and
directories.

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Marcelo

Em Sex, 2005-07-01 às 10:47 -0400, Gordon R. Keehn escreveu:
> Martín Marqués wrote:
> > El Jue 30 Jun 2005 16:50, Yogen Mankikar escribió:
> > 
> >>Thanks for the help guys,
> >>Just FYI, adding "user" option to fstab did not work but "umask=000" did 
> >>work.
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, but you have to have done something wrong. Putting user in the optios 
> > IS the way to deal with this. Check my vfat windows partition that I'm 
> > mounting as a normal user:
> > 
> 
> Hi, Guys
>    I think someone is confusing "user" (which allows a user to MOUNT the 
> device) and "umask=000" (which controls the default permissions for new 
> files and folders).  I have had problems with USER, myself (e.g. on a 
> USB ZIP drive), so I bagged it and SU to mount a disk.  I have never run 
> into problems accessing a drive as a user once it has been mounted. 
> IMHO "umask=000" is NOT a goodness, since it means that new files or 
> folders will be created with an access mask of 777.
>     Cheers,
> Gordon Keehn
> 




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