Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hi Colin
maybe I should have described not only the symptom, but also the problem 
arising from all this. I try to mount /mnt/d as user (I am allowed to do that 
according to /etc/fstab). After mounting it, I have no right to enter the 
directory I just mounted. Why not? 

joerg

Am Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 09:37 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory?
> > Example:
> >
> > ls -l /mnt
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d
> > mount /mnt/d
> > ls -l /mnt
> > dr-x------    1 root     root         4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d
>
> The first of these shows you the permissions of the /mnt/d directory on
> the filesystem mounted on /. The second shows you the permissions of the
> / directory on the filesystem mounted on /mnt/d. Does that help?
>
> Very little ever pays attention to the permissions on the mount point
> itself (the first).