I've posted before (here and elsewhere) about an underlying problem - concept of users, groups, and permissions. I'm also considering the idea that at some level the underlying cause(ww?) is linguistic rather than technological (that will be for a USENET language forum).
Right now I have a discrete application problem requiring a solution using current technology. The ENVIRONMENT is a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE desktop whose purpose is experimentally determining an optimal configuration. I wish to have a partition set up in such a manner that ALL users of *ANY* installed OS will have totally unfettered access. My original solution was to use a fstab entry of: UUID=E90C-65B4 /media/common vfat auto,exec,rw,flush,umask=000 0 0 (vfat specified as solution will also be used on a machine with WinXP) The first problem problem was when copying a file *TO* that partition, the "allow execution flag" was automatically set. A suggested solution was to use umask=111. That, for un-understood reasons, prevented deleting any file already there or copying new files to that partition. I did notice one other aberration when using umask=000. When copying a file whose owner was 'richard' of group 'richard' to that partition, the owner was *AUTOmagically* changed 'root' of group 'root'. That suggest a form of solution which I have no idea of how to implement - or even if it could be implemented. Can fstab cause the partition's owner to 'universal' of group 'universe'? NOTE BENE: spelling of 'universal'/'universe' intentional. The intention being that *all* users would *AUTOmagically* be members of group 'universe'. Would require attention to creating same gid automatically. Comments/suggestions please. TIA _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug