Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:21:25 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission confusion at mount points Message-ID: <199807030021.TAA18905@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 12:24:29 %2B0200." <199807021024.MAA11096@semyam.dinoco.de>
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Stefan Eggers writes: > Hi! > > I had a directory "/usr2" with mode 0700 owned by root.wheel. On that > I mounted a filesystem with mode 0755 owned by root.wheel (data of its > root node). The OS is 2.2-stable CVSUped lately. [...] > Should the mount point really influence permissions this way w/o > giving any indication of this? Or is this behavior unintentional? > Is it worth a PR? Its that way in every Unix I've used. Can't think of one that it doesn't act up, but somebody would point out the odd system if I was to claim more than I know and say *all* unices. For kicks, "cd /usr2; pwd". Bet it'll fail. Same for SGI's Irix 6.2. Use 755 permissions on your underlying mount point and put the problem out of your misery. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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