Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
DW wrote: > Discovered something odd today, trying to get the procedures down to > help someone who wanted to mount a second drive to a mount point in > their home directory. : > Ownership on mount point: dude:dude /usr/home/dude/drive2 > > Now when I do: ># mount /dev/da1s1d /usr/home/dud

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: no, the first time this was my thought too, I've been known to do stuff like this, especially since so much activity is done with 'sudo', but we went back (each of us on our respective machines), and did it again, making sure we were doing it as 'dude', not sudo or 'root', and it ha

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread DW
Robert C Wittig wrote: DW wrote: So any ideas on why I need to do a chown -R dude:dude after the first mount?? Am I missing something, going insane, or is something buggy here You created the directory as root: # mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...so it belongs to root. no, the first t

Re: mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
DW wrote: So any ideas on why I need to do a chown -R dude:dude after the first mount?? Am I missing something, going insane, or is something buggy here You created the directory as root: # mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...so it belongs to root. I can only assume that... 'Ownership

mount privileges...what the heck?

2006-07-21 Thread DW
Hello, Discovered something odd today, trying to get the procedures down to help someone who wanted to mount a second drive to a mount point in their home directory. Running FreeBSD5.5p2 * 2nd drive device/partition: /dev/ad1s1d * /etc/sysctl.conf: vfs.usermount=1 * /etc/devfs.conf: perm