Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount permission Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112183414.22079L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <aa0_9801070212@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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On 6 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > At 06 Jan 98 04:26:05 Doug White wrote regarding Re: mount permission > > DW>> if am not mistaken in 2.2.2-RELEASE we have this kind of access, > DW>> not allowing an ordinary user (non-root) to mount a filesystem. > DW>> what happened? > DW> > DW> I wasn't aware that those permissions changed. Verify your > DW> perms on /sbin/mount* and the target devices. > > A nice thing SysV has (at least in the version I knew) is a program called > perms (or the like) which can save all the owner/group and perms in a textfile, > and later reset all possible changes to the "right" valuesaved in this > textfile. This was often done in distributions, after all the files had been > un-tared from tape. We have a similar utility: mtree. tar can save perms too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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