Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-04-01 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted filesystem, not the mount point. While we are at it, is there a rationale for /boot to be root.disk,

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-04-01 Thread Bruce Perens
It might be a good idea to look up what (if anything) POSIX says about this. Thanks Bruce

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bruce Perens wrote: Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted filesystem, not the mount point. While we are at it, is there a

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Santiago! On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bruce Perens wrote: Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted

Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. The following bug (#25847) is currently assigned to base-files: The mountpoints /cdrom and /floppy are set to g+wxs. However, I think that the g+w flag is of no use here, as when a fstab entry with 'user' option enabled is mounted, the access flags are changed and the mount point is

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-29 Thread Bruce Perens
Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted filesystem, not the mount point. Thanks Bruce