From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 5 19:05:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10943 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 19:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10921 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 19:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-173.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.173]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA23582; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 21:05:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12035; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 19:31:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199807060031.TAA12035@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stefan Eggers cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: permission confusion at mount points In-reply-to: Message from Stefan Eggers of "Sun, 05 Jul 1998 12:41:59 +0200." <199807051042.MAA05304@semyam.dinoco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 19:31:30 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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