[KLUG Members] home directory and vfat

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Fri Feb 18 10:47:15 EST 2005


> Is it possible to use VFAT partition to store user home directoy? What are
> the entry I need to enable in /etc/fstab for vfat partion to enable access
> to VFAT partiontion per user and per group base?

Probably not a good idea.  VFAT doesn't support permissions, so EVERY
user would have READ and WRITE access to EVERY FILE under /home in ALL
OTHER USERS HOME directories, not just their own.

 - BS




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