From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 05:59:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 05:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24056 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dswartz@druber.com) Received: from manticore (manticore.druber.com [207.180.95.108]) by mail.kersur.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22363; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:59:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981011085905.0094fd60@mail.kersur.net> X-Sender: druber@mail.kersur.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:59:05 -0400 To: Peter Philipp From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: Change permissions on mount point? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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