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Re: [Plug] Controlling access to a dos partition
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Thanks for the help. I had just been looking at it wrong. In Linuxconf I
was using 770 to grant privs to owner/group/everyone and i needed to type it
7 7 0. Minor difference in how it was being read. It works great now.
Thanks again
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul B. Krause <pbk@martnet.com>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Plug] Controlling access to a dos partition
> Try looking at the mount man pages, then set appropriate
> rights
> in /etc/fstab. I just glanced, but I found an option for
> umask
> that looks pretty promising. BTW, I would mount it as -t
> vfat
> rather than -t msdos, if you're not already.
>
> > Douglas A. Weber wrote:
> >
> > Hey I need a hand to help me see the obvious. :-)
> >
> > I am running Mandrake linux 6.0 and so far I really like
> > it. I dual boot using lilo into either that or
> > windows98. I would like to have access to the windows
> > partition (drive) from linux. using linuxconf as root no
> > problem. I would like to limit other users access to the
> > windows partition from linux. I read the help files in
> > linuxconf and tried to set myself up as the default owner
> > and gave it default rights of 700 with no luck. I tried
> > to chmod the directory since I was the owner and still no
> > luck. Anyone feel up to helpin me out?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Doug
> > Gotta say the more I play with linux - The more I like it!
>
> --
> Paul Krause
> pbk@martnet.com
> --
> It only takes one person to break a program if the source
> code is closed,
> if it's open, it only takes one person to fix it.
>
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