Restricting access

[Warren Togami]

FAT32 has no access controls, so I think the only way you can restrict
access is by making the mount point owned by some group and no user.

Create a group for the users who will need access to the FAT32 partition.
chown root.groupname /mnt/mountpoint
chmod 770 /mnt/mountpoint
Then add that as a supplemental group to the users.

However, I'm not entirely sure if this will work.  Please let me know if it
works.  If it does not, this may require the Linux kernel ext2 or XFS ACL's
patch and tools.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: [luau] Restricting access


> Hi,
>
> Actually to be more specific, I want to restrict access on a hard drive
> formatted for windows..is this possible? I know its possible on a
> non-windows-formatted drive.
>
> thanks,
> Rodney
>
> On Friday 07 September 2001 21:08, you wrote:
> > Is there  a way to restrict access to file directories to certain users?
I
> > have a directory that I want full access to, but I want that directory
to
> > be "invisible" to other users.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Rodney