On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote:
> Arg! This is hell.
> I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows
> storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i
> have tried changing via properties whilst logged in as root, i
> have tried in Control centre/security/DrakePerm by adding a new
> rule, modifying the current rule (which i shouldnt be able to do
> i think i read somewhere).
>
> What am i doing wrong? Everytime i make the changes, they seem to
> be over written again, back to the old settings.
>
> I have entry, execute and write for User, but not for Group or
> other. The owner is 'root' group 'root', although if it was i
> would be able to change the permissons. I think it is some sort
> of windows permissions that are stopping me, as i have had the
> same problem before.
>
> I need write permission. Is there anyway to edit the permission
> settings manually, like in an fstab type file?
To me it looks like you are getting patronized by msec, which has a
tendency of "bessermachen", at least if your security setting is
"higher" and especially "paranoid". Every now and then msec checks
permissions, and if it finds something slightly out of the usual,
it changes permissions back. So, maybe changing your security
setting to "high" or "standard" will settle things.
On the other hand, if your windows partition is listed in
your /etc/fstab, it should contain "umask=0", something like :
/dev/hda4 /data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
that way it will mount chmod 777 every time.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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