[ale] shifting permissions

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Can somebody _please_ explain what is happening to me.
> I am running RHFC-3, w/2.6 kernel
>
> I have a new 1-gig thumb drive, formatted with vfat (rw).
>
> I want to mount it at /media/widget. This is the listing:
>
> ls -l /media/widget
>    drwxrwxrwx  2 kilpatms users 4096 Apr  3 10:06 widget
>
>
> So then as root I run the mount command and check the perms again:
> [root at sarge media]# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/widget
> [root at sarge media]# ls -l /media/widget
>    drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root  16384 Dec 31  1969 widget
>
> What is changing the permissions?
> More to the point, how to I stop it so that I can use the Thumb Drive
> from my Home directory?
>   

Read up on the mount options for fat/vfat systems, specifically the 
umask=, dmask=, and fmask= options.  No doubt root's umask is 022, which 
is affecting the permissions.  Alternatively, you could make use of the 
uid= and gid= options so the device is owned by kilpatms/users.

--Joe