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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:45:58 -0800
From:      Andrew Bradford <a-bb@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)
Message-ID:  <47BCC9C6.9050501@gmx.net>

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Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, 
but read-only for anyone else.  It will be mounted as a backup 
directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current 
users on the system but can't be writeable, regardless of the file 
permissions.

Example
<normal filesystems mounted from hd1>
hd2 mounted rw in /root/backup-rw
hd2 mounted ro in /backups

Only root should be able to write to anything under /root/backup-rw/ 
even though normal users will own files in that directory.  Normal users 
should be able to read anything that permissions allow in /backups so 
that they can restore files from the backup.

I was planning on using the nullfs fs type to achieve the second 
mountpoint for the fs.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Andrew




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