On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:40:19AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > In addition to everyone else's wonderful suggestions, I also always > mount vfat drives with the showexec option, which turns off the exec > bit for files that aren't .exe files, but leaves it on for > directories. You can't do that with umask. Good option. "user" and "users" implies "noexec" though. -David