Re: ntfs server umask

Keith Chiem (chiem@alum97.ucla.edu)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:30:39 -0800 (PST)


I went ahead and recompiled with the modified default umask for the ntfs
driver. My fstab is clean and I get my nt partitions mounted as 555.

--k

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

I went ahead and recompiled with the modified default umask for the ntfs
driver. My fstab is clean and I get my nt partitions mounted as 555.

--k

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

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