Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:27:53 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> To: DW <spock@dwinner.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount privileges...what the heck? Message-ID: <44C138C9.9080301@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <44C12164.6060708@dwinner.net> References: <44C108FE.200@dwinner.net> <44C11B6C.3070406@sbcglobal.net> <44C12164.6060708@dwinner.net>
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DW wrote: > no, the first time this was my thought too, I've been known to do stuff > like this, especially since so much activity is done with 'sudo', but we > went back (each of us on our respective machines), and did it again, > making sure we were doing it as 'dude', not sudo or 'root', and it > happened every time. <snip> >> % mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...or >> $ mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 > I swear, that's what we did!!!! :) Maybe I'm losing it?, but we went > back and verified and verified, and still scratching our heads. Well... I was responding precisely to your post, where you used the '#' prompt in your example, which is the root prompt. The '%' and '$' prompts traditionally indicate non-root users. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/
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