On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote: > > All partitions are automatically readable/writable by all by default. One >> would have to take extraordinary measures to restrict access to a >> partition. >> > > Wes, > > Not always, at least on Slackware. Partitions are owned by root.root and > while /tmp always retains 777 perms, /opt doesn't for some reason. So, as > root, I run 'chmod 777 /opt' and that fixes access for all. > > Filesystems have permissions, partitions don't. Files and directories have owners, partitions don't. /tmp and /opt are filesystem locations. They may or may not have partitions mounted to them. Regardless, the chmod command affects the directory entries on the filesystem, not the partitions. The currently-running OS may restrict its "unprivileged user" from accessing the hardware directly. That's not the partition's fault. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
