Todd Lyons wrote: > Pixel wrote on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:05:58AM +0100 : > >>>The value of umask(=0) makes many system files on the FAT32 >>>partition writable by a non-root linux user. This is very >>>undesirable and risky. In the extreme case, a well-designed linux >>>virus can easily damage the windows system files !! The proper >>>solution to this is to change the umask value to 022 so that only >>>root has write access to the FAT32 system. >> >>umask=0 is what people want AFAIK... >>cooker people, WYT? > > > Nearly every problem that someone has when trying to save files to a FAT > partition is because they don't realize they need to be root. Should we > protect them from possible bad things and make it umask=022, or should > we allow them to do things like their old OS did? I personally vote to > allow them to have access as a regular user. I know it's not secure, > but it cuts a lot of support needs.
IMHO, when dealing with windows features/filesystems, if in doubt, do what Windows does. Under all versions of windows, all users have write access to all files on any FAT filesystem. So, IMHO, umask=0. I personally make a group that has write access to my fat32 partitions, cause I like my data ;-). Dependant on msec level? Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
