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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:42:58
Message-Id: 20101215144125.GC5525@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem... by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> [10-12-15 15:40]:
2 > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >
4 > > And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless
5 > > of its perm settings before the mount
6 >
7 > With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of the
8 > directory. As soon as you mount something on it, the mount point has the
9 > ownership and permissions of the root of the filesystem that you just
10 > mounted there. In the same way that the contents of the filesystem appear
11 > at the mount point, so does the metadata, so change the permissions
12 > after mounting.
13 >
14 >
15 > --
16 > Neil Bothwick
17 >
18 > A real programmer never documents his code.
19 > It was hard to make, it should be hard to read
20
21 ...unfortunately (as root)
22
23 cd /tmp
24 chmod 1777 .
25
26 does not help...
27
28 mcc

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem... "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>