Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:59:05 -0400 From: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> To: Peter Philipp <pjp@bsd-daemon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change permissions on mount point? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981011085905.0094fd60@mail.kersur.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810110821410.481-100000@bsd-daemon.net>
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At 08:23 AM 10/11/98 -0400, Peter Philipp wrote: >I'm not sure why 4.4BSD does this. When mounting a MFS filesystem on a >mount point with say 644 permission, the mount point changes to 1777. I >have observed this with FreeBSD, BSD/OS and OpenBSD. > >Does anyone know why this is? The original permissions on the mount point are irrelevant. When the filesystem has been mounted, the root directory's permissions are what become visible. This is perfectly normal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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