[PLUG] When {[right question] >= (useful answer)} ?

[wes]

Whoops, apparently umask is not the answer for ext partitions. There are
further comments there which do claim to work.

-wes

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:

> Through a quick google of "fstab world writable" (without quotes) I found
> this:
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/174776/modify-fstab-
> entry-so-all-users-can-read-and-write-to-an-ext4-volume
>
> One of the answers suggests using the "umask" option in the fstab entry. I
> believe this is what you're looking for.
>
> -wes
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> wrote:
>
>> This Richard is confused ;/
>>
>> Using GParted I created an ext4 partition labeled "owlcommon".
>> I added the following line to fstab:
>>   LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common ext4 rw,user 0 0
>>
>> On reboot it does appear in the expected file system location.
>>
>> *BUT* it is locked {owned by root with users only able to read}
>>
>> I would like all users to have unrestricted access.
>> If not possible, since "richard" has the same UID on all systems, I would
>> like "richard" to have full access AUTOMATICALLY.
>>
>> IOW when I do a fresh install to another partition I want to write a line
>> to that system's fstab (or elsewhere) such that "richard" automagically has
>> full access.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/03/2018 05:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect the other Richard could be confused in a similar fashion, so
>>>> your reply was still valuable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> wes,
>>>
>>>    I must have been undercafinated when I responded. Partitions are
>>> always
>>> /dev/sd* (or similar) while file systems have names. It's been a hectic
>>> day
>>> but I won't claim that as an excuse.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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