It may be possible to convince linux that every file is executable on a fat32 partition, but I've never seen this.
It's possible using the "umask" option when you mount the drive. For instance, on the CAEDM lab machines we this in the fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto,umask=077 /dev/sda4 /zip auto user,noauto,umask=077 0 0
Thus, if a user mounts the floppy or zip drives and the disk contains a fat[32] filesystem, all the files are set to permission 700 (umask operates as the opposite of persmissions -- yeah, it's confusing). If they mount a ext2 filesystem, then the umask option just gets ignored anyway. This prevents another user from ssh-ing into the machine aand changing any files while the owner has his disk mounted.
-- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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