vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Ivan Wills
Hi I am trying to use a windows win32 (vfat) partition as an ordinary user but the permissions do not allow me to read it or write to it unless I am root. I have tried to chmod the mount location (with the partition mounted and unmounted) with no success. I also tried adding user to the

Re: vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Mount with an appropriate umask, as in; mount -tvfat -oumask= /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drivec will make everything on the mount world-writable. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology,

Re: vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ivan Wills: Hi I am trying to use a windows win32 (vfat) partition as an ordinary user but the permissions do not allow me to read it or write to it unless I am root. I have tried to chmod the mount location (with the partition mounted and unmounted) with no success. I also

Re: vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:53:53 +1000 Ivan Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to use a windows win32 (vfat) partition as an ordinary user but the permissions do not allow me to read it or write to it unless I am root. I have tried to chmod the mount location (with the partition