On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  finally got my Guest Additions issue straightened out, decided to
> create a simple shared folder, R/W and automount:
>
>  Folder path: /home/rpjday/vbox
>  Folder name: vbox
>
> Rebooted to test and, sure enough, it was mounted:
>
> $ mount -t vboxsf
> vbox on /media/sf_vbox type vboxsf (gid=1001,rw)
> $
>
>  however, p. 63 in the user manual in the boxed note suggests that
> while full R/W access to the folder is granted only to the group
> "vboxsf", other users are granted read-only access.  but from what i
> can see, other users have no access to that folder whatsoever based on
> the mount point directory perms:
>
> $ ls -ld /media/sf_vbox/
> drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 2010-12-12 04:52 /media/sf_vbox/
> $
>
>  that tells me that unless you're root or in the vboxfs group, you
> have *no* access to that shared folder at all.
>
>  am i reading something incorrectly?

I believe execute permission on a directory gives "traverse" access,
but they would not be able to create new files.

Richard

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