[ale] Permission hell question

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Wednesday 30 June 2004 09:13 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> | Try the following:
> | 
> | /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0
> | 
> | mount the drive from the command line:
> | 
> | mount /mnt/zip
> | 
> | Then check out the perms.  See if you can create a file on /mnt/zip.
> 
> 
> made the change to the fstab file.
> can mount the zip drive with the command above as user, not root.
> 
> perms on the zip platter look like this (only root has
> write perms!):
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    5 kilpatms kilpatms     2048 Jun 21 18:27 Scripts
> 
> [Scripts is a directory and the same perms hold for files within.]
> 
> I really don't care about the perms on the zip platter -- only that
> I can write to it without a hassle.

I'm not sure I understand.  Are you able to do what you want?  You said 
something about perms on the zip platter, but didn't list them.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft