[ale] shifting permissions

[Jerry Yu]

simply mount it as yourself instead of as superuser (indicated by the '#' in
the command-line prompt).
plus, if you have HALD running, it ought be mounted for the Desktop owner,
which is you if you log in as the regular joe.
the file owner/group/permission are faked (or best-guessed) on removable
media, esp. if its fs is not a linux-native one.

On 4/3/06, Joe Steele <joe at madewell.com> wrote:
>
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > Can somebody _please_ explain what is happening to me.
> > I am running RHFC-3, w/2.6 kernel
> >
> > I have a new 1-gig thumb drive, formatted with vfat (rw).
> >
> > I want to mount it at /media/widget. This is the listing:
> >
> > ls -l /media/widget
> >    drwxrwxrwx  2 kilpatms users 4096 Apr  3 10:06 widget
> >
> >
> > So then as root I run the mount command and check the perms again:
> > [root at sarge media]# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/widget
> > [root at sarge media]# ls -l /media/widget
> >    drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root  16384 Dec 31  1969 widget
> >
> > What is changing the permissions?
> > More to the point, how to I stop it so that I can use the Thumb Drive
> > from my Home directory?
> >
>
> Read up on the mount options for fat/vfat systems, specifically the
> umask=, dmask=, and fmask= options.  No doubt root's umask is 022, which
> is affecting the permissions.  Alternatively, you could make use of the
> uid= and gid= options so the device is owned by kilpatms/users.
>
> --Joe
>
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