Look for the umask option for fat. the permissions are, _I believe_ octal. Charles Hendrie wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Red Hat 8.0 and have begun to use it as my > desktop operating system. My question has to do with mounting a fat 32 > partition on the same hard drive as Red Hat. Once I login, I su to root > and mount the fat 32 partition. Once the partition is mounted, I am able > to read and write files on the mounted partition as root, but only read > files as the user I have logged in as. A listing of the permissions of a > random file on the mounted partition look like this. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101 Dec 7 17:13 dvds.txt > > This seems to make sense to me because the partition was mounted as > root. What I would like to do is mount the partition so any user can > access the files on the fat 32 partition. After reading the man pages > for mount I have not been able to determine if this is possible. Any > help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks - Chad > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list