Root isn't God

[Roger Beever]

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[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ivan F. Martinez
Sent: 20 December 2003 11:43
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Subject: Re: Root isn't God



On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:19:53 +0100
Nicolò Nepote <nepote at cclinf.polito.it> wrote:

NN> I have mounted a fat32 partition 7dev/hda2 on /mnt/data with the
NN> vfat option and added an entry in /etc/fstab with auto option. The
NN> folder /mnt/data was created with default umask and has 755
NN> permissions. In order to have the possibility to write on that disk
NN> when I login as "nepote" (that is my usual identity and is part of
NN> the group "root") i logged in as root and:
NN>
NN> chmod 775 /mnt/data -R
NN>
NN> the command returns a list off "you don't have enough permissions
NN> (requested 775, was 755)"
NN>
NN> ?????????


You can't change permissions on vfat with chown and chmod.
man mount
and look the options to specify this parameters at mount time.

try the umask = to 000.
It worked for me (on rhel 3)
But it should be the same on Fed.
Regards Roger