Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntfs-3g access rights

[Nganon]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:00:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:

[..]

> > Assuming your uid is 1000, primary group 1000, you can then use options
> > something like:
> >
> > uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0007,fmask=0117
> >
> > which gives a sane unix-like set of permissions. Nothing close to windows
> > but a) you don't have to be root to use it and b) the www user can't trash
> > your files on the ntfs volume.
> >
> > Like I said, I've never used ntfs-3g but the above is a pretty common
> > permissions model and it's reasonable to assume ntfs-3g probably implements
> > it or something similar. As always, read the fine docs and YMMV.
>
> Thanks Neil, much appreciated.  I'll have a play with the dmask, fmask
> settings as you suggest and see what gives.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Here it is in action...

Sun Oct 03 | 22:38:57 ~ $ grep ntfs /etc/fstab
#/dev/hda3               /mnt/hda3       ntfs-3g
dmask=007,fmask=117,gid=6,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:11 ~ $ ll /mnt/hda3/
total 461
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 AUTOEXEC.BAT
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk   4952 Aug  4  2004 Bootfont.bin
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk    210 Apr 28 13:54 boot.ini
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 CONFIG.SYS
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Feb 20  2010 Documents and Settings
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  32768 Dec 25  2009 f66ab2f450887cbdbce72b4ac54c5a
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 IO.SYS
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Mar 27  2009 MinGW
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk    166 Dec 13  2009 mp4log.txt
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 MSDOS.SYS
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Mar 29  2010 My Photo
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Mar 29  2010 My Video
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jul 11  2009 nrn71
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk  47564 Aug  4  2004 NTDETECT.COM
-rw-rw---- 1 root disk 250560 Sep 28  2008 ntldr
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  28672 Apr 28 13:43 Program Files
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Mar  9  2004 pyqt
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  12288 Dec  7  2009 Python25
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jul 10  2009 Python31
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Sep 12  2008 Qt
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Apr 28 13:35 RECYCLER
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jan  7  2010 System Volume Information
drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  61440 Apr 28 13:43 WINDOWS
Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:42 ~ $

..huh! I just noticed, it seems I havent booted the damn thing since
August.. [snigger]

Btw, his name is Alan, not Neil. WB Alan. :)