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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:57:57 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_6 weird '..' permission troubles
Message-ID:  <20060216165612.M91053@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20060216074912.K18952@extra.rwsystems.net>
References:  <20060216161726.M91053@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060216074912.K18952@extra.rwsystems.net>

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, James Wyatt wrote:

JW> I've seen something very similar when the permissions of the mount point's
JW> underlieing subdirectory wasn't 777. Really strange to see, but it was a
JW> fallout from a company-wide change to make umask and directory permissions
JW> that wasn't quite implemented correctly.  Hope this helps - Jy@

Exactly, see my other followup.

I suppose 0777 is bad choice because if for some reason file system would not 
mount, anyone can fill up this directory. 0111 or 0555 or standard 0755 would 
be safe though.

Thanks!


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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