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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
