Re: /etc/mnttab and Solaris 2.4
Luke Mewburn (lm@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:51:31 +1100 (EST)
> > I ask that because under Solaris 2.4, the /etc/mnttab is like this (666):
> > % ll /etc/mnttab
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 409 Jan 6 13:25 /etc/mnttab
> Ours is mode 644. It has to be readable for things like df to
> work. Only root needs to be able to write to the file, when
> mounting file systems, changeing quota, and such.
yup, I noticed this too... I can't remember offhand how I stopped the
mnttab having 666 perms; probably a mod to one of the startup files...
> Note, that atleast on our system, quotaon sets the mode to 600
> and this break the df command (and quota -v for the user if
> memory serves)
I think I tracked this behaviour down to having root umask of 077.
I.e, quotaon sets perms of mnttab to (666 & ~umask).
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Luke Mewburn, <lm@werj.com.au>
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