Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 19:31:30 -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: <199807060031.TAA12035@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> of "Sun, 05 Jul 1998 12:41:59 %2B0200." <199807051042.MAA05304@semyam.dinoco.de>
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Stefan Eggers writes: > First off: Thanks to the people who responded. I'll now sending in a > PR to get a small note into the BUGS section of mount(2) and mount(8) > to give others a chance to solve it a bit faster. A wise man once told me, "If its documented its not a bug, its a feature." :-) > > Use 755 permissions on your underlying mount point and put the problem > > out of your misery. > > That's how I solved it. It was just irritating. To avoid this sort > of problems bothering others I think the man pages should mention it. > See above. Am fairly sure 755 isn't the minimum permissions required. A little playing around suggests 111 (execute) is all thats needed. -- 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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