On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:55, Andrew Hunter wrote: > Hi. I encountered a problem, and a solution, but I don't understand why > it worked. Namely, I have attempted to run bin files (for example, to > install Java for Mozilla from Sun) and failed. I was told that I was > not authorized, although I was logged in as root. The files was stored > on a mounted FAT32 partition. I copied the file over to the Linux > partition and ran it without any trouble. The problem is resolved, but > I am now curious as to why it was a problem to begin with. Any ideas? >
vfat and other windows file formats have no concept of the bits that ext3 and standard unix file systems use to mark files as executable and so forth. Thus no file on a windows drive is ever executable to linux. In some ways this is a safety feature since windows drives have no security features. It may be possible to convince linux that every file is executable on a fat32 partition, but I've never seen this. You could use umsdos on top of fat32 which adds some thunking layers to implement unix permissions, but there will be complications with unix long-file names not generating fat32 long file names and vice versa. > Many thanks-- > Andrew > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
