On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:00:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:
[..] > > Assuming your uid is 1000, primary group 1000, you can then use options > > something like: > > > > uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0007,fmask=0117 > > > > which gives a sane unix-like set of permissions. Nothing close to windows > > but a) you don't have to be root to use it and b) the www user can't trash > > your files on the ntfs volume. > > > > Like I said, I've never used ntfs-3g but the above is a pretty common > > permissions model and it's reasonable to assume ntfs-3g probably implements > > it or something similar. As always, read the fine docs and YMMV. > > Thanks Neil, much appreciated. I'll have a play with the dmask, fmask > settings as you suggest and see what gives. > -- > Regards, > Mick Here it is in action... Sun Oct 03 | 22:38:57 ~ $ grep ntfs /etc/fstab #/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ntfs-3g dmask=007,fmask=117,gid=6,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:11 ~ $ ll /mnt/hda3/ total 461 -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 0 Mar 7 2004 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 4952 Aug 4 2004 Bootfont.bin -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 210 Apr 28 13:54 boot.ini -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 0 Mar 7 2004 CONFIG.SYS drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Feb 20 2010 Documents and Settings drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 32768 Dec 25 2009 f66ab2f450887cbdbce72b4ac54c5a -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 0 Mar 7 2004 IO.SYS drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Mar 27 2009 MinGW -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 166 Dec 13 2009 mp4log.txt -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 0 Mar 7 2004 MSDOS.SYS drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 0 Mar 29 2010 My Photo drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 0 Mar 29 2010 My Video drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Jul 11 2009 nrn71 -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 47564 Aug 4 2004 NTDETECT.COM -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 250560 Sep 28 2008 ntldr drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 28672 Apr 28 13:43 Program Files drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Mar 9 2004 pyqt drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 12288 Dec 7 2009 Python25 drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Jul 10 2009 Python31 drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 0 Sep 12 2008 Qt drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 0 Apr 28 13:35 RECYCLER drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 4096 Jan 7 2010 System Volume Information drwxrwx--- 1 root disk 61440 Apr 28 13:43 WINDOWS Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:42 ~ $ ..huh! I just noticed, it seems I havent booted the damn thing since August.. [snigger] Btw, his name is Alan, not Neil. WB Alan. :)
