On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.
true enough. but at the very least, read access on a directory
normally implies you have both "r" and "x" permission. as you can see
above, others have no rights whatever, which seems to disagree with
what's written in the user manual.
rday
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