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Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, |
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meino.cramer@×××.de did opine thusly: |
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> J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> [10-12-15 16:00]: |
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> > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> [10-12-15 15:40]: |
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> > > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > > > > And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on |
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> > > > > regardless of its perm settings before the mount |
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> > > > |
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> > > > With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of |
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> > > > the directory. As soon as you mount something on it, the mount point |
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> > > > has the ownership and permissions of the root of the filesystem that |
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> > > > you just mounted there. In the same way that the contents of the |
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> > > > filesystem appear at the mount point, so does the metadata, so |
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> > > > change the permissions after mounting. |
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> > > |
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> > > ...unfortunately (as root) |
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> > > |
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> > > cd /tmp |
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> > > chmod 1777 . |
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> > > |
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> > > does not help... |
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> > |
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> > I don't think you can change the permissions like that. |
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> > Try: |
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> > cd / |
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> > chmod 1777 /tmp |
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> > |
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> > To remove the "s"-bits, try the following: |
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> > cd / |
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> > chmod u-s /tmp |
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> > chmod g-s /tmp |
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> > This, however, needs to be done while the "/tmp" filesystem is mounted. |
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> > Otherwise you are only changing the mount-point (directory) not the |
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> > actual filesystem. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Joost |
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> interesting... |
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> Until now, I thought '.' is equal to the directory I am in. |
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Usually it is, this is a special case |
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Every other action you could do with it resolves to the same thing no matter |
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what point of view you take. |
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chmod/chown changes the filesystem or mount point, which are different things. |
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So there's two command interpretations. It's all quite logical once you've |
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figured it out but even then most of us still never remember which is which... |
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> Ok, times is changing, me too, but as it seems not fast enough ;) |
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> Thanks a lot... thats fix it! |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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