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- From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: /etc/mtab mode change with dismount
- Message-ID: <Bx9rBD.F2E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:42:35 GMT
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- What is the correct way to keep the mode of /etc/mtab from changing to
- root-only read and write when a volume is unmounted? I inserted and
- ejected a floppy disk on my 3.0 Cube and it changed the mode of
- /etc/mtab so that nobody but root can use df(1) (the 'df' command).
-
- On a related note, is the fix for this to make df(1) setuid root? I'm
- hesitant to do that, but if that's the only way to fix this problem...
-
- And lastly, on a clean 3.0 system, what is the output of the following
- command?:
-
- ls -lg /bin/df /etc/mtab
-
- Thanks.
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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