Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Chris Carlen <crobc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Leen,
>
> On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:25, Leendert Meyer wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 05 September 2004 06:34, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Carlen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > How can I make the filesystem have a umask that overrides the
> > > > users' umasks?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for input.
> > >
> > > I think this is one of those rare cases where VMS would be
> > > easier!
> >
> > Huh? I don't understand this - but everything is easy if one knows how
> > to do it.
>
>
> But not everything is possible.
>
> The way I understood the request, Chris wants to have files that get 
> created within a specific directory or set of directories to reflect a 
> umask independent of that in effect in the process that does the 
> creation. He's not trying to control each user's umask. Nor can he, of 
> course--the best that can be done is to control the default or initial 
> value, as your suggestion addresses.
>
> I know of no way to make happen what Chris wants.
>
> ...
>
> Actually, he said this was a separate file system. If the permissions 
> required are lax, perhaps using a FAT file system would produce the 
> desired results, or something close to them.

Thanks for the input.

Unfortunately, I was using VFAT, but I couldn't get it to share over NFS 
without having to mount it explicitly on the client, because I think I 
had used the nohide option incorrectly.  So I went and reformatted it to 
reiserfs.  Now I figured out how to get it to share properly, and I'm 
pondering if I should go back to VFAT.

:-(


Good day!



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