[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

Robert Wohlfarth rbwohlfarth at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 12:22:21 CST 2009


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:32 AM, David McGlone <david at dmcentral.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 December 2009 00:29:24 Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
> > /dev/sda5  /home/david/www  vfat  user,auto,umask=777  0  0
> >
>
> When I use umask=777 in my fstab line, I'm not able to use the server at
> all.
> It's weird. I get a 403 error and Apache says:
>
> Forbidden
> You do not have permission to access / on this server.
>

I would guess 777 is not the right value. I don't have a partition to test
with. The man page says that umask is the permissions NOT set. You could try
000 instead. It should set rwxrwxrwx - in theory...

-- 
Robert Wohlfarth
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