From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 16:48:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ixion.honeywell.com (ixion.honeywell.com [129.30.4.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F51314C20 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sleas@ixion.honeywell.com) Received: by ixion.honeywell.com (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA067449126; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:45:26 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:45:26 -0500 From: Shawn Leas To: Andrew Johns Cc: Mark Ovens , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown/chmod doesn't work on FAT slices Message-Id: <19990418184526.A6297@ixion.honeywell.com> References: <19990419002810.D965@marder-1> <371A6E34.44F54CE@TurnAround.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <371A6E34.44F54CE@TurnAround.com.au>; from Andrew Johns on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:43:48AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:43:48AM +1000, Andrew Johns wrote: > 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. No you don't. Just chown/chmod the mountpoint, and permissions are inhereted. -- Shawn <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> Day 2279 for the poor and the middle class. Day 2298 for the rich and the dead. 643 days remaining in the Raw Deal. <============================================> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message