NFS mounting by users

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 11:58:38 PDT 2004


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:26:43AM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> What makes a mount point permissive?

Usually mount points are created by root. Usually, a
regular user cannot write to that mount point. So, when
I get permissions problems, I make sure that the mount
point is chmod'd 777. (This may cause security problems.)

Another idea:  Is the mount program suid?

Joel



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