Re: 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition

[Andris Pavenis]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:13:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Oct 10, 2001  23:01 +0300, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> > > Similary as with 2.4.10 mount flag noexec does not work for VFAT
> > > partition. I have following in fstab
> > > 
> > > /dev/hda1      /c       vfat     noexec,gid=201,umask=002,quiet  1    0
> > > /dev/hda5      /d       vfat     noexec,gid=201,umask=002,quiet  1    0
> > > 
> > > but I see that all files in corresponding filesystems are still 
> > > exectuable
> > 
> > Probably because your uid or gid match the above, so your access permission
> > is done by checking "user" or "group" and not "other".  Try "umask=113"
> > instead.
> 
> Um.  'noexec' does not touch flags, it only disallows exec'ing
> on particular mountpoint.  So Andris, have you tried executing
> anything on those partitions?
> 
> umask also sets directory permissions, so with umask=113 you
> cant acces any dirs there...
> 

Yes I cannot really execute them (or some Linux executable if I copy it
there). I didn't verify it earlier. Anyway I better liked behaviour of 2.2
kernels and also 2.4 kernels up to rather recent time when 
'ls -l' listed files as not executable (the same with mc)

Andris