Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:20:32 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> [10-12-15 16:00]:
> > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> [10-12-15 15:40]:
> > > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > > > > And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on
> > > > > regardless of its perm settings before the mount
> > > >
> > > > With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of
> > > > the directory. As soon as you mount something on it, the mount point
> > > > has the ownership and permissions of the root of the filesystem that
> > > > you just mounted there. In  the same way that the contents of the
> > > > filesystem appear at the mount point, so does the metadata, so
> > > > change the permissions after mounting.
> > >
> > > ...unfortunately (as root)
> > >
> > >     cd /tmp
> > >     chmod 1777 .
> > >
> > > does not help...
> >
> > I don't think you can change the permissions like that.
> > Try:
> > cd /
> > chmod 1777 /tmp
> >
> > To remove the "s"-bits, try the following:
> > cd /
> > chmod u-s /tmp
> > chmod g-s /tmp
> >
> > This, however, needs to be done while the "/tmp" filesystem is mounted.
> > Otherwise you are only changing the mount-point (directory) not the
> > actual filesystem.
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
> interesting...
> Until now, I thought '.' is equal to the directory I am in.

That's true, but not entirely :)
I don't think "chmod" is supposed to work that way :)

> Ok, times is changing, me too, but as it seems not fast enough ;)

Times are changing, so are people, but there are too many changes occuring for 
people to pick the "right" changes :)

> Thanks a lot... thats fix it!

You're welcome :)

--
Joost