[HLUG] Ello all I should be able to make this meeting I have 3 weeks of bliss doing nothing.... :)

[alan carter]

Hi,
If I remember correctly you can't set permissions on a FA32 filesystems.
You can set the permissions for a whole partition when you mount it i.e.. In
the fstab.

Hope this helps.

Alan


On 1/9/05 7:06 pm, "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

> First congrats to Julian sorry I haven't been keeping up with the emails.
> 
> I still haven't managed to get the midi files working which is a bit of a
> pain I have given up on this task for a bit I am moving into getting my
> Gateway machine to be my webserver/gateway/firewall/ftpserver.
> 
> I have installed Suse9.3 seems to run ok. I have a question regarding
> security of files on a none Linux based format NTFS.
> 
> My little brother who is mentally handicapped deleted 40gig of data from my
> server machine. Which was running windows 2000 but is always logged in as
> Administrator. Now the data has gone I've decided I will just stick Linux on
> there & give everyone rights to do what they need.
> 
> Problem.
> 
> On my other machine I give to my brother to use while I setup Suse on my
> gateway it has 3 drives
> 1 6gig(windows boot Drive)Fat32
> 2 20gig(linux Suse9.3(linux whatever format)
> 3 80gig(data Drive) Fat32
> 
> Now after creating a user for him I checked to see if I can delete files
> from the user Chris. & was horrified to find I could. I then tried to set
> the permissions on the Fat32 drives to only root can delete but it says I
> don't have permissions to do this even though I relogged in as root..
> 
> As you can imagine I am now a little worried that he might delete data from
> my other computer now..... Any help Please!!!!
> 
> 
> Dave the Raver
> David Shorthouse
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