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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd mount points
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.130650.3877@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <172e41INNpd5@disaster.Germany.EU.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:06:50 GMT
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- In article <172e41INNpd5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
- >Experiment (repeat-by) : Create a directory mode 000 owner root. Mount
- >filesystem on top of that. Give mounted directory permissions 755. Log in
- >as ordinary user. Go into that directory. Type 'pwd' or 'ls -la'.
- >Watch the programs complain about '..'.
-
- This is a standard gotcha.
- in general if you are going to mount over something go ahead and
- make the mounted-over thing 777.
-
- ron
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