From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 16:45:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672CE14C20 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04656; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:51:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <371A6E34.44F54CE@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:43:48 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown/chmod doesn't work on FAT slices References: <19990419002810.D965@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The dumb M$ world doesn't support ownership of files, hence there are no permissions to change. The partition is mounted and owned by root to prevent *other* users from trashing your M$ partition. ie: You have to be root to access M$ partitions if you want to change/create files on them. -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message