Thanks bascule, that did the trick
Don Wright
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From: "bascule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Permission to mounted drives?
> in /etc/fstab ypu can enter a umask setting to set the permissions for the
> drive, for some reason the umask figure is the permissions you want taken
> from 777 (in numeric form) so if you set umask to equal 777 the permisions
> for the drive would be 0 all round however since root can lock itself out
of
> files (but always with the ability to unlock itself) i don't know if this
> will give you what you want since it might prevent root access, but i
think
> you can also set a user and group for the drive, i have seen these options
in
> linuxconf along with umask so setting user and group to root and umask to
666
> should work i guess, i 'm sure someone will say if i am wrong -at least, i
> hope they will!- i have a feeling that setting permmisions for the mount
> point doesn't actually do anything once a drive is mounted on that
directory
>
> bascule
>
>
> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 1:18 am, you wrote:
>
> > > I am using Mandrake 7.2 on a multi boot machine. I am trying to only
> allow
> > the root user to access 2 of my windows 98 partitions. I have security
set
> > to medium. The only way I seem to be able to stop access to these
drives
> > is by going to High security (pain in the arse, then no one but root can
> > access any of the mnt drives) or unmount the drives. I've used linuxconf
to
> > try to change the settings, but it doesn't seem to take affect. Also,
I've
> > logged in in console mode and used the chmod command to change it (chmod
> > 700 win_c). It acts like it's working, but then when I log back as a
user
> > I can still access them? I've set linuxconf to not mount the drives at
> > boot, and that works, but I would like to mount them in case I need to
> > access a file on them, I'm just a little paranoid because I have a dsl
> > connection and want to limit access just in case someone gets in. Thanks
in
> > advance,
> > DJW
>
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