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I promise I googled. I found the question asked quite a bit, but never |
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found a solution. This isn't a Gentoo-specific question, so I marked |
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it [OT]. |
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I have a USB HDD, using ext3, and I'd like all users to be able to have |
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full permissions for any file on it. It's *not* a problem to mount it |
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rw for all users; I mention this because googling turned up a lot of |
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people mistaking that question for the one I want to ask. |
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The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the drive, |
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it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for user B on |
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machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both me, but with |
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different UIDs on the different machines.) |
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What I'd like is for all files created on the drive to have |
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permissions 666, but I don't see any way to override the system umask |
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(0022) for only this drive. I saw somewhere suggested that setting |
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the device node and the mountpoint permissions both to 666 would do |
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that, but it doesn't work for me (and I don't know why it would for |
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anyone). |
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As it is now, I have to occasionally use '# chmod -R 666' on the |
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entire drive before I can work with files on it. |
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If I reformat the disk as vfat, I could use the umask mount option for |
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vfat, but if possible I'd rather keep using ext3. |
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»Q« |
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Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. |