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- From: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Davis)
- Subject: Re: /etc/mtab permissions
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:09:45 GMT
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- In article <RHESS.93Jan25093544@consilium.COM> rhess@consilium.COM (Richard L. Hess) writes:
- >
- > I had the same problem. It took me a while to figure it out, but I'd bet
- >that you have very tight permissions set on your "File Creation Mask". If
- >you just use "Expert Preferences" (Unix) in the Preferences tool to open up
- >your permissions to allow "Group" & "Others" Read access, then you won't have
- >any problems with the permissions changing on /etc/mtab. Evidently when the
- >eject script/program executes it runs as root and uses your default
- >permissions and so if your permissions are too "tight" you can't read
- >/etc/mtab after the floppy get's ejected. Hope this helps,
- >
-
- Thanks, that seems to be a good workaround. I had trouble
- with NeXT disks as well as DOS and Mac disks.
-
-
- Rob
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