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On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 01:23 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: |
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> On Sunday 27 August 2006 23:59, Joseph wrote: |
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> > Harm Geerts is right (thanks) "umask=0077" does what I need with dos |
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> > partition, when mounted, usb stick has a permission 700. |
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> > What would be an alternative for ext2 file system, umask doesn't work. |
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> I might be wrong but I'm guessing you want different permissions on the |
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> mountpoint. |
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> In that case you can simply `chmod 700 /mnt/your_stick` it with ext2 (while |
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> mounted). |
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> ext2 stores this and will use the same permissions the next mount. |
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> This is true for all filesystems that support permissions (which all normal |
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> linux filesystems do) |
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> umask is only intended to make up for the lack of file permissions on vfat. |
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Thanks for the explanation, I did that with "chown" on ext2 and it did |
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work. |
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It makes me wander if anybody experiment with other file systems |
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(besides dos, ext2) on on memory sticks? |
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#Joseph |
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