Re: Did you know ...

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

Isn't that an option somewhere in the gnome/kde config.  You need to
create a file or a link into the .gnome/desktop or something like that.  I
can't remember, but within there that is where you need to take a
look.  As for the eject, I think that you can make it suid root without
many problems.  I don't really see that many holes being in source code to
control the eject of a cdrom/zip/etc.  But, I haven';tlooked at it so I
really don't know.  :)

tighe

>Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:48:50 -0600
>From: James L. Burke <jburke@burkepoirier.com>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>Subject: Re: Did you know ...
>
>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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