Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hi Lukas

When I mount another filesystem, say /mnt/e which is a vfat partition, the 
owner of the direcrtory /mnt/e changes to the user who mounts it. Thus only 
he has access to the mounted filesystem - this makes sense imho. The problem 
I have described earlier is, that a regular user can mount and unmount the 
ntfs partition (readonly), but the directory is still owned by root. The 
permissions are set to r-x------. so only root can enter and read the 
directory - makes not sense imho... Let's try what happens when I set the 
vfat partition to "user,ro" in /etc/fstab:
drwxr--r--    4 jorg     jorg        16384 1970-01-01 01:00 e
This is what I would expect for the ntfs partition, too.

Thanks for your info, but still seeking help

joerg

Am Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 09:19 schrieb Lukas Ruf:
> * Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> [2003-02-25 09:15]:
> > Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory?
> > Example:
>
> If I correctly remember, the permissions of the mountED directory are
> set.  This makes sense for security reasons.
>
> wbr,
> Lukas