[wplug] chmod and windows partition

[Lance Tost]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, John Harrold wrote:
> 
> the uid is the user id of root, and the umask contains the permissions of

Well, the uid is actually the uid of the userid that you would like to 
have access to the partition.

> the mount point in octal form (see the manpage for mount). i'm not really
> sure about the 077 thing. i would think that would turn off read, write and
> execute permissions for the user but turn them on for the group and the
> world. i think what you want here is 770.
> 

You need to think of umask in the opposite way that you think about chmod.  
077 is what he wants if he wants group and other to have no access.

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