Re: mounting /dos with read and write perm.

[Milton Hankins {64892} <mlh swl msd ray com>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Michael Paul Friedlander wrote:

>...
> /dev/hdd1    /dos  vfat  defaults 1 1
> 
> How do I modify this line (or through some other means) to make that
> partition readable and writable by all?

Dangerous, but you can change the line in /etc/fstab to this:

 /dev/hdd1	/dos	vfat	defaults,rw,mode=777,umask=000 0 0

(The zeroes indicate the backup and fsck policies, respectively.  See
man fstab.)

Personally, I would create a special group (like "dos") and add special
people to it.  Say,  for instance, that this group has an ID of 102
(/etc/groups) and the user "nobody" has an ID of 99 (/etc/passwd).
This would give everyone in group 102 full access, excluding all other
normal users:

/dev/hdd1	/dos	vfat    defaults,rw,uid=99,gid=102,mode=070,umask=707 0 0


Also, you may want to replace "defaults" with "defaults,nosuid,nodev".

The mode flag does not appear in the man page for fsck.  Hrm.  Maybe
it's not necessary.

Comments, corrections wanted.



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