Re: [expert] File Permissions

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> Write permission for vfat file systems at mount time is only provided
> to the user that does the mount.  So that is what you should do -
> have the user who wants to write be the one that does the mount and
> eventual umount.
> 
> But first as root alter /etc/fstab to make all the vfat mounts noauto
> (as the installer should have done), then reboot.
> 
YOU DON'T HAVE TO REBOOT! Just write the edited fstab and
next time someone goes to mount the drive, it'll be read
again! About the ONLY time you have to reboot is when
installing a new kernel!
        John