Fwd: Fwd: FW: [plug] ubuntu 6.06 and file permissions for fat32

Josh Fletcher joshyf at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 08:41:33 WST 2006


I'm sorry, I have missed your point.

man sudo just tells me that sudo executes commands as another user, usually
the 'superuser'.

If you mean that by only being able to access the folder with sudo means
only root has access, I had already figured that...



On 9/22/06, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) <daniel at flashware.net>
wrote:
>
>  man sudo
>
> Josh Fletcher wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried both EricS and Michael's edits to fstab, but the most I got was
> being able to sudo access the folder. On the actual drive I can do stuff,
> but when I try to access that folder I get a permission denied unless the
> command has been sudo'd...
>
> By the by, what's the easiest way to open a root terminal in Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks, Josh
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au>
> Date: Sep 21, 2006 8:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: [plug] ubuntu 6.06 and file permissions for fat32
> To: plug at plug.org.au
>
> > > /dev/hda4       /media/documents
> vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46
>
> That'll give access to group 46. Are you a member?
> Simplest fix is to change to 'umask=000' and give everyone full access.
>
> > /dev/hda4 /media/documents vfat
> > umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
>
> Do you want 'user' for a hard disk partition?
>
> One warning: Don't change the data while windoze is hibernating.
>
> Is there a way to get XP to unmount a FAT32 partiton before hibernating?
>
>
> Mike.
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