On 11/10/2016 9:49 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 10 Nov 2016 at 17:05:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:On 11/10/2016 1:52 PM, David Wright wrote:On Thu 10 Nov 2016 at 04:53:47 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:Yes, but not in the context of a sub-project from last few days. I suspect what I aiming at might look like - the groups and permission bits set at time partition created, thus avoiding games with /etc/fstab . richard@jessie-defaults:~$ richard@jessie-defaults:~$ ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root owl 8, 1 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda1 brw-rw-r-- 1 root owl 8, 2 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb br--rw-r-- 1 root owl 8, 17 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb1↑ is there a purpose behind the missing w ?Yes. My rational is in my rather verbose post https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00361.html . Linux evidently does not do things "my way" [apologies to a fast food chain].Should I take it that last sentence means you are aware root can write over a file even if the permission is --------- , let alone r-------- , so you have no precaution as well as no protection. Cheers, David.
It was a description of what I wanted, not what I could get. I suspect thinking in detail about "corner cases" is a good education.