Restricting access

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi Warren,

Well I tried what you suggested and no luck. I guess I need those patches you 
were talking about.


On Saturday 08 September 2001 07:52, you wrote:
> 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
>
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