On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Gordon Ross wrote: > I forgot to answer the "why 'x' perms?" part (for files). > Two reasons: (1) to avoid surprise - what you normally see now > under an smbfs mount is both files and directories are 755, and > (2) if you want to be able to run anything out of smbfs, you'll > need execute permission, same as with filesystems like pcfs.
Ah, I figured, but wasn't sure. Also, why should dirperms default to 755 instead of 700?
