Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are plugging in the USB drive after you are in the GUI, it will
inherit the GUI user. (console user). If you want to make the VFAT
readable by other than the user you need to pick a mountpoint and use
umask settings in the config file where the drive is mounted. You can
select users for everybody to be able to access it. The other
permissions are set when you plug in the USB drive by programs included
with Fedora to mount drives. chmodding even as root is not a function.
I have the the USB drive (250gig) plugged in when booting.
I then mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows-g
The drive is formatted fat32.
How can I use umask in a config file to change this?
Kind regards
Kevin
I searched for links and Debian seems to have a good page for umask
settings and others. They even seem to have mention for removable
devices. The masking settings are inverse from the settings permissions.
0 is equiv to 7 and visa-versa. 002 would give group and owner the
control depending on other settings.
The best link that I found was below;
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127
Which says that they had a good source from:
http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html
Jim
