On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:48:09 Nganon wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:00:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [..]
> 
> > > Assuming your uid is 1000, primary group 1000, you can then use options
> > > something like:
> > > 
> > > uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0007,fmask=0117
> > > 
> > > which gives a sane unix-like set of permissions. Nothing close to
> > > windows but a) you don't have to be root to use it and b) the www user
> > > can't trash your files on the ntfs volume.
> > > 
> > > Like I said, I've never used ntfs-3g but the above is a pretty common
> > > permissions model and it's reasonable to assume ntfs-3g probably
> > > implements it or something similar. As always, read the fine docs and
> > > YMMV.
> > 
> > Thanks Neil, much appreciated.  I'll have a play with the dmask, fmask
> > settings as you suggest and see what gives.
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
> 
> Here it is in action...
> 
> Sun Oct 03 | 22:38:57 ~ $ grep ntfs /etc/fstab
> #/dev/hda3               /mnt/hda3       ntfs-3g
> dmask=007,fmask=117,gid=6,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
> Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:11 ~ $ ll /mnt/hda3/
> total 461
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 AUTOEXEC.BAT
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk   4952 Aug  4  2004 Bootfont.bin
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk    210 Apr 28 13:54 boot.ini
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 CONFIG.SYS
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Feb 20  2010 Documents and Settings
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  32768 Dec 25  2009 f66ab2f450887cbdbce72b4ac54c5a
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 IO.SYS
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Mar 27  2009 MinGW
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk    166 Dec 13  2009 mp4log.txt
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk      0 Mar  7  2004 MSDOS.SYS
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Mar 29  2010 My Photo
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Mar 29  2010 My Video
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jul 11  2009 nrn71
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk  47564 Aug  4  2004 NTDETECT.COM
> -rw-rw---- 1 root disk 250560 Sep 28  2008 ntldr
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  28672 Apr 28 13:43 Program Files
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Mar  9  2004 pyqt
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  12288 Dec  7  2009 Python25
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jul 10  2009 Python31
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Sep 12  2008 Qt
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk      0 Apr 28 13:35 RECYCLER
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk   4096 Jan  7  2010 System Volume Information
> drwxrwx--- 1 root disk  61440 Apr 28 13:43 WINDOWS
> Sun Oct 03 | 22:39:42 ~ $
> 
> ..huh! I just noticed, it seems I havent booted the damn thing since
> August.. [snigger]
> 
> Btw, his name is Alan, not Neil. WB Alan. :)

Of course Alan!  Neil sounds totally different ... Sorry, should have gone to 
bed earlier!
-- 
Regards,
Mick