[wplug] Win98/Linux data sharing

[Elwin Green]

Thanks - I know what uid and gid are; I looked up
umask in man mount. It says this:

"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."

I have *no* idea what that means (Does *anyone* write
decent documentation for non-geeks?).

How do I use umask?

E.
 
--- "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:15:54AM -0700, Elwin
> Green wrote:
> > The partition I want to use for data sharing is
> named DOS_hdb7.
> > 
> > # chown elwin:mgr /mnt/DOS_hdb7
> > 
> > I got this:
> > 
> > chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/DOS_hdb7':
> > Operation not permitted.
> 
> The DOS (VFAT) filesystem doesn't support the UNIX
> notions of owners
> or permissions.  That's why you have to use the uid,
> gid, and umask
> options when *mounting* the filesystem.
>



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