Re: permissions and vfat

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

I wrote:
| The problem is that VFAT doesn't have any concept of ownership or
| permissions.  Therefore you get to make some of to apply to the whole
| partition, what take effect at mount time. So you can have the whole
| patition owned by whoever you like, with whatever permissions, but you
| can't tune anything smaller.

Sorry for the travesty of English - I've got the flu, and on rereading this I
see I'm not typing clearly. That should have read:

	The problem is that VFAT doesn't have any concept of ownership
	or permissions.  Therefore you get to make some of you own
	to apply to the whole partition, which take effect at mount
	time. So you can have the whole partition owned (and/or group
	owned) by whomever you like, with whatever permissions, but you
	can't tune anything smaller.

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

I suppose the solution would be to close the composition window and let
my article sit for half an hour or so once I've finished with it, and
then go back and proofread it once more.  But that would be a pain in
the proverbial bifurcated derriere.  Part of the experience of flaming is
to load a searing missive into the conceptual breech of my SPARCcannon
and pull the imaginary lanyard whilst flushed with the adrenaline of mortal
combat.
	- Geoff Miller, <geoffm purplehaze Corp Sun COM>