When I followed the instructions in the Red Hat Getting Started Guide for mounting my vfat file system (No.7, Q&A item number 7 -- accessing a windows partition), I ended up with the permissions set to 022. I could not access the file system unless I was logged in as root. In order to actually get permissions of 755, I had to type in a default permission of 022 in gnome-linuxconf>Volume Specification>Dos options>default permission. Now I can access vfat when logged in as user. -- Peter Pankonin, Webmaster CJIL Television, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Since posting this, I've learned that this is because of umask. Perhaps a note to the effects of umask would be good to include at this point in the Getting Started Guide. -- Peter
I'm assigning this to our documentation people for further review.
Fixed in the next release. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!