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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:29:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/1336
Message-ID:  <199610230829.KAA24918@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <7363.846045265@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 22, 96 09:34:25 pm"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> No, not to my knowledge.
> 
> > Synopsis: Permission for .. in NFS mounts is somewhat non-intuitive
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> > State-Changed-By: scrappy
> > State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:13:33 PDT 1996
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 
> > Has this been addressed?

Ah, the mountpoint permission problem.  It's a well-known problem, and
not only NFS is affected.  You could get the same funny behaviour by
turning, say, your /var mountpoint into mode 0700 (with /var not yet
mounted, of course), and then start over your system...

We should document that mount points will be best with permission 555
or something like that (the actual permissions are always shadowed
later), and close the PR.  At least, we should move it to `suspended'
state since nobody seems to step forward and solve the underlying
problem.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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