Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:40:41 +0200 From: Michael M <thecryof@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel? Message-ID: <CAKXnHW95C-4qZJOTrCa3uq7JqSeN40c6et6zLkrAkU61ejLpjA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110902163108.be0e56b4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAKXnHW-CPXczQVvUoCEapN9%2Bqvj7swOZ%2Bk_EuYSgASGE7HA7=Q@mail.gmail.com> <201109021202.p82C2NE4084388@mail.r-bonomi.com> <CAKXnHW8485rnURFaJxwqhsq14cgNuxVW_69pBcWZqhJp3PsNzQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110902163108.be0e56b4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:08:08 +0200, Michael M wrote: > > Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: > > > > Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in > fstab > > upon mount? > > No. The access rights depend on the owner:group permissions > of the mountpoint directory. The _act_ of mounting depends > on the mounter's ownership of the corresponding device files. > > So in order to to only allow wheel group members to access > a certain mount point for ug=rwx, the permissions of that > mount point have to be set. This is done independently from > what /etc/fstab is for (which controls the _act_ of mounting > if all requirements - as mentioned above - are met). > > However, there _are_ options that can be included in fstab > for applying a certain mask to files contained in a mounted > directory, see -m and -M in "man mount_msdosfs" for example. > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > Thanks for the info :)
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