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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:57:39 -0500, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>>>>Not a problem. I can determine who accesses the floppy
>>>>when it is mounted (look up the mount command).
>>>
>>>Yes, but once mounted it is accessible for all. Actually it is the file
>>>system with its access rights to the files, that makes access safe, not
>>>only the mount command.
>>
>>You didn't do your homework on this one:
>>
>>Mount options for fat
>>
>>   uid=value and gid=value
>>     Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid
>>     and gid of the current process.)
> 
> Huh, these options are provided for a FAT FS. The reason is clear MS-DOS
> never was a proper multi-user OS. Use a normal FS! (I think under Linux we
> could define FS "normal" if that has no uid/gid options in mount. (:-))

What did you expect on a floppy? ReiserFS? 8-/
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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