Re: Did you know ...

["James L. Burke" <jburke@burkepoirier.com>]

OK, now as a "standard" user (non-root) I can mount, read/write/execute,
and unmount my zip disk.  Great! ...

But I can't eject the zip disk unless I login as root?

Is there a way to add devices to the Red Hat desktop?  The default
device icons include floppy(/dev/fd0) and cdrom(/dev/cdrom).

I tried adding my zip disk to autofs (/etc/auto.master ...), but I still
can't seem to add an icon like the ones for cdrom and floppy.  If you
right click on those icons, you get options such as mount, unmount,
eject ... very helpful for my users ...

any suggestions?

jburke

Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> lwhite@apci.net said:
> > Althought it worked liked a charm, I never did understand what the umask option
> > did/does.
> 
> >From the mount(8) man page:
> 
>        umask=value
>               Set  the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that
>               are not present). The default is the umask  of  the
>               current process.  The value is given in octal.
> 
> In other words, since vfat doesn't have the concept of file
> permissions, the permissions will be 777 minus the umask value.  If
> you set umask to 0, the permissions will be 777.  If you set umask to
> 027, the permissions will be 750.
> 
> Steve
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