external USB Drive

[Jim Cornette]

Kevin Waterson wrote:

>This one time, at band camp, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
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>>If you are plugging in the USB drive after you are in the GUI, it will 
>>inherit the GUI user. (console user). If you want to make the VFAT 
>>readable by other than the user you need to pick a mountpoint and use 
>>umask settings in the config file where the drive is mounted. You can 
>>select users for everybody to be able to access it. The other 
>>permissions are set when you plug in the USB drive by programs included 
>>with Fedora to mount drives. chmodding even as root is not a function.
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>I have the the USB drive (250gig) plugged in when booting.
>I then mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows-g
>The drive is formatted fat32.
>How can I use umask in a config file to change this?
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>Kind regards
>Kevin
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I searched for links and Debian seems to have a good page for umask 
settings and others. They even seem to have mention for removable 
devices. The masking settings are inverse from the settings permissions. 
0 is equiv to 7 and visa-versa. 002 would give group and owner the 
control depending on other settings.

The best link that I found was below;
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127
Which says that they had a good source from:
http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html

Jim