[Sussex] Mandrakew 9.1 shared partitions

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

Instead of changing the permissions, how about changing the group that the
folders belong to and putting the users in that group?

Matt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gordon Darling [mailto:gordondarling at btopenworld.com]
>Sent: 07 June 2003 17:57
>To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Sussex] Mandrakew 9.1 shared partitions
>
>
>Anyone using Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) ?
>
>I have 3 fat32 partitions on /mnt/win_c, /mnt/win_d and /mnt/win_e
>
>I want access to them for two users.
>OK, chmod 777 the mount points
>Whoops, Mandrake instantly changes them back to 744. (Security 
>level is set
>to "high")
>
>Open the Mandrake Control Centre and delve about the innards 
>of directory
>permissions. Whatever I set won't stick
>
>Edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local to show
>/mnt/win_c/ current 777  (Also try /mnt/win_c/ current 7777)
>/mnt/win_d/ current 777
>/mnt/win_e/ current 777
>
>Still doesn't wan't to let the permissions stick
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Regards
>Gordon
>
>
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