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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:04:21 -0400
From:      Bob Richards <bob@tania.servebbs.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount Point permissions
Message-ID:  <200608092304.22781.bob@tania.servebbs.org>
In-Reply-To: <D7C86F3C-3E21-4CBA-9555-725848651F0B@lassitu.de>
References:  <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <D7C86F3C-3E21-4CBA-9555-725848651F0B@lassitu.de>

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On Tuesday 08 August 2006 17:44, you wrote:

> The root directory of the filesystem mounted determines the ownership
> and access rights on it.  By default, newfs will assign is to root
> and set the rights to 0755.  You'll need to chown the directory to
> the desired user.
>

Stefan:

Yeah.... I noticed that. If I become root, and chown the mounted floppy to 
bob:bob, then on all subsequent mounts of that particular media bob has write 
access; but ONLY after root intervention.

What this means however, is that I can NOT set up a work-station where the 
user has no root access, and expect that user to effectively use the floppy 
drive. What a pain! The user can format, mount, and read; but until the media 
is choned to her/him, by root,  they can't write.  I didn't have this problem 
with Linux.
 
Bob
 



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