From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lj5Ug-0005fI-MH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EB4FE00A4; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434A7E00A4 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF0664A96 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.112 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.112 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.420, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5UZCzMqXznfs for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC466481F for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lj5UQ-0003SM-8F for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:35:54 +0000 Received: from 206.40.238.101 ([206.40.238.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:35:54 +0000 Received: from boxcars by 206.40.238.101 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:35:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C2=BBQ=C2=AB?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:26:55 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20090316002655.57839b56@prezmyra.remarqs.net> References: <20090315161605.6e593578@bellgrove.remarqs.net> <20090315220009.6a701622@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.40.238.101 X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2c5db0b8-f0ff-48a7-aef1-e28e639fdf51 X-Archives-Hash: 4e76ca87df880cb1c6826b4bbcd49785 In <20090315220009.6a701622@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500, =C2=BBQ=C2=AB wrote: >=20 > > What I'd like is for all files created on the drive to have > > permissions 666, but I don't see any way to override > > the system umask (0022) for only this drive. =20 >=20 > If you don't want to change the system umask, and you probably don't, I definitely don't! > ACLs are the best way to do what you want. I was really afraid you'd say that, heh. ACLs are on my to-learn-about list, but were pretty far down it. I guess they just moved up a few notches. Seriously, thanks for the pointer. If I do decide to try that approach, I'll post back hw it worked out. --=20 =C2=BBQ=C2=AB Kleeneness is next to G=C3=B6delness.