NFS mounting by users

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb
Mon May 17 11:58:38 PDT 2004


Thanks.  I'll check that out.


Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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