"Paul Hepworth" <paul1+vsta@vpinc.biz> writes:
>I edited passwd and shadow and copied guest to a user directory, but I can't
>tell how to change the ownership (and permissions). I tried chmod usr.pjh,
>but it didn't work for me.
>(of course, man chmod doesn't help; there's no man page)
>I guess permissions don't really work quite right on fat disks anyway;
>everything looks like sys.sys.
Right, there's no place in the FAT storage to store permissions.
>When I login as myself, I am unable to write or delete files due to perm
>error.
You can have more capabilities than just your login ones. Put yourself
in a group which is granted root and you'll be fine.
>Do I need to setup vstafs disk to make non-root file access work?
No, you can give yourself root permissions as well as your personal ones.
But, really, there's much to be said for having a filesystem which fully
supports the protection model.
Andy
Received on 2 Mar 2004 18:01:05 GMT
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