Package: mount Version: 2.12r-10 Severity: normal With a disk mounted type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,user=jidanni) nobody including root can get past an invisible umask that makes chmod 777 666 etc useless.
I challenge you to do a chmod that will allow other users to write a file anywhere into that disk. It is impossible. # chmod 777 /cf/tojidanni1/outgoing # ls -ld /cf/tojidanni1/outgoing drwxr-xr-x 2 jidanni jidanni 2048 Sep 21 01:43 /cf/tojidanni1/outgoing Only root and jidanni can write anywhere on that disk. One can chmod one's head off, no use. Well, you see one needs some umask in /etc/fstab otherwise all files become 777 on mount, but one wants to be able to change things later... OK, I use noauto,noatime,user,fmask=133,uid=jidanni,gid=jidanni but occasionally want to chmod 777 some dirs to allow user proxy to write. OK, from now on I will forget user proxy and just use root, as I don't attempt to understand vfat. By the way, the next day I mounted the disk on another machine, and the file timestamps were all in GMT time or something. I will test if $ stat bla>bla; cat bla looks correct when made, but not later when mounted elsewhere... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
