From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 21:44:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C41316A4DD for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:44:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [213.238.47.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639E143D46 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:44:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: (from stb@koef.zs64.net) (authenticated) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k78LiTnl011814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:44:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) In-Reply-To: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> References: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stefan Bethke Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:44:29 +0200 To: Bob Richards X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Point permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:44:44 -0000 Am 07.08.2006 um 23:55 schrieb Bob Richards: > The permissions on mount-point /home/bob/floppy are 770 with bob:bob > > After the mount operation I see: > > ls -al floppy > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Aug 7 11:22 . > > And of course, bob can only read, but not write. The root directory of the filesystem mounted determines the ownership and access rights on it. By default, newfs will assign is to root and set the rights to 0755. You'll need to chown the directory to the desired user. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140