Re: Did you know ...

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

Ummm . . . you might want to make that a umask=077 so that only the
mounted owner can write to it.  You might also want to make that a noexec
instead of exec for security also.  Is this a home system or a multiuser
system?

Tighe

>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:59:30 -0600
>From: James L. Burke <jburke@burkepoirier.com>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: SILUG Discuss <silug-discuss@silug.org>
>Subject: Did you know ...
>
>Hello all,
>
>I recently I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to
>mount/use vfat filesystems from within Linux without being root.  The
>mount part proved to be fairly easy, but the USE part seemed tougher.  I
>know most of you are probably shocked that it actually took someone
>hours to figure this out, but I thought there might be others on the
>list who could benefit from my pain ...
>
>add this line to your /etc/fstab:
>
>/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	auto	noauto,user,rw,exec,umask=000	0 0
>
>or for a zip disk at hdd4 add:
>
>/dev/hdd4	/mnt/zip	auto	noauto,user,rw,exec,umask=000	0 0
>
>(of course, you have to create the /mnt/zip directory first)
>
>The "umask=000" seemed to be the real fix for my problem.  The gurus
>among us probably have a better solution.  Please let me know if the
>"fix" I found can be accomplished in a better way.
>
>Have a great day ...
>
>jburke (the handsome one of the two jburkes)  ;)
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Tighe Schlottog		Sys Admin at large	  /emry\"@"/accessus.net\
                             ook ook
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now and then a giant pink-haired ape would come running after me and 
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a tiny little brain and wouldn't be expected to worry about anything." 
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