-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:51:58PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* > purpose. > It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. > There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between > them. > > When I plug one into my Debian machine I want totally unfettered > read/write access. > [when logged in as root or *ANY* user ID] > > > HOW? > {any one notice a tone of frustration ;/}
Use the "umask" option when mounting the file system. Umask is supposed to be the bits *not* to set in the file permissions. That would be mount /dev/foo mnt -oumask=000 (of course just 0 would suffice. Old rituals and that ;-) For more options, you separate them with comma, like so mount /dev/foo mnt -ouid=richard,gid=richard,umask=003 supposing you want the files to belong to user (uid) "richard" and group (gid) "richard" and want to take away write perm from others. The details are in the "mount" man page, under "FILESYSTEM SPECIFIC MOUNT OPTIONS", "Mount options for fat". You can set the options in the fstab, if you make an entry there (fourth field, see man fstab). regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgwtwwACgkQBcgs9XrR2kapJQCdGT1YIv/58eaI49xxqp4SuDV9 WyAAoIEduiIOmQk7TBnAUOt+9kbZg1+/ =wo6m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----