Re: /etc/mtab permissions

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From: Robert Davis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:09

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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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