Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:22:31 +0300 From: sja@tekla.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/1336 Message-ID: <9610231122.AA29064@poveri.tekla.fi>
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>> > Synopsis: Permission for .. in NFS mounts is somewhat non-intuitive
> Ah, the mountpoint permission problem. It's a well-known problem, and
> not only NFS is affected. [...]
>
> 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.
Perhaps make mount(8) warn if the permissions of a mount point
are unreasonable? Nice both for new sysadmins and old farts
who think they can't make such mistakes.
if ((mount_point_stat.st_mode & 0555) != 0555)
warn("rtfm \"man 8 mount\"");
++sja
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