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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:44:29 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Bob Richards <bob@tania.servebbs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount Point permissions
Message-ID:  <D7C86F3C-3E21-4CBA-9555-725848651F0B@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org>
References:  <200608071755.57239.bob@tania.servebbs.org>

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Am 07.08.2006 um 23:55 schrieb Bob Richards:

> The permissions on mount-point /home/bob/floppy are 770 with bob:bob
>
> After the mount operation I see:
>
> ls -al floppy
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Aug 7 11:22 .
>
> And of course, bob can only read, but not write.

The root directory of the filesystem mounted determines the ownership  
and access rights on it.  By default, newfs will assign is to root  
and set the rights to 0755.  You'll need to chown the directory to  
the desired user.


Stefan

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