Re: ntfs server umask

Tom Eastep (eastep@eastep-1.mis.tandem.com)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 08:48:43 -0800


Keith Chiem wrote:
>
> I've got one gripe about this. Mounting an ntfs partition leaves it in mode
> 700 by root. This is a read only driver, and unless there's some convention
> I dont' know about, I believe mounts should be 444. This is due to

You can override this setting in /etc/fstab; from mine:

/dev/sda1 /nt/c ntfs
user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,uid=1729,gid=511,umask=0222 1 1
/dev/sdb1 /nt/e ntfs
user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,uid=1729,gid=511,umask=0222 1 1

-Tom

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Tom Eastep	
COMPAQ Computer Corporation
Enterprise Computing Group
Tandem Division
tom.eastep@compaq.com

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