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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory mounting vfat... Post 16520 by dimanise on Sunday 3rd of March 2002 08:36:25 PM
Old 03-03-2002
Network mounting vfat...
Hi,
I have a little and very annoying problem.

I want to mount a partition so that most of the files would be owned by a user, then an ftp dir with special previliges set up, and some of the files having write access for all users.

I can't do it anyhow. Right now i have this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda6 /windows vfat noauto,user,umask=0000

which comes the closest to what i want, but is a huge security risk. The negative sides of this setup is that i have to manually mount the partition every time i login, and that ALL the files have rwx access for all users. And i don't know how to make an ftp dir with different previliges.

If i put auto in /etc/fstab then all the files will be owned by root, which is what i don't want, it will also not allow to execute files.
If i also put exec that still won't solve the problem.
And if i just don't use umask I somehow can't make a file with writable access by all users.

Maybe there's some way i can make a script which would run on startup or login which would mount the partition and set all the needed previliges?

Thanks in advance.
 

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systemd-gpt-auto-generator

SYSTEMD-GPT-AUTO-GENERATOR(8)				    systemd-gpt-auto-generator				     SYSTEMD-GPT-AUTO-GENERATOR(8)

NAME

       systemd-gpt-auto-generator - Generator for automatically discovering and mounting /home as well as discovering and enabling swap
       partitions, based on GPT partition type GUIDs.

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-gpt-auto-generator is a generator that automatically discovers /home and swap partitions and creates mount and swap units for them,
       based on the the partition type GUIDs of GUID partition tables (GPT). Note that this generator will execute no operation on non-GPT
       systems, on systems where the units are explicitly configured (for example, listed in fstab(5)) or where the mount point is non-empty.

       This generator will only look for partitions on the same physical disk the root file system is stored on. This generator has no effect on
       systems where the root file system is distributed on multiple disks, for example via btrfs RAID.

       This generator is useful for centralizing file system configuration in the partition table and making manual configuration in /etc/fstab or
       suchlike unnecessary.

       This generator looks for swap partitions using GPT type 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e50933c84b4f4f. It looks for /home partitions using GPT type
       933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b8440e14e2aef915.

       systemd-gpt-auto-generator implements the generator specification[1].

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd.mount(5), systemd.swap(5), systemd-efi-boot-generator(8), fstab(5)

NOTES

	1. generator specification
	   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Generators

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