[CS-FSLUG] Mounted filesystem permissions

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 13:22:21 Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
> 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...
> 

Thanks Robert, that did the trick. I completely missed what the man page said. 

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