From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4luW-0003Tl-EJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:50:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7FKmvOD025180; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:48:57 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7FKjLNQ003138 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:45:21 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4lqE-0001i4-7N for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:45:54 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60241405F61 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:45:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:45:48 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? Message-ID: <20050815214548.6d3c7205@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4300F960.5040900@gmx.ch> References: <4300DE8A.2090205@gmail.com> <342e10905081512127bf9c2be@mail.gmail.com> <4300F960.5040900@gmx.ch> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_21_45_48_+0100_P_XOGVVWP+4cmejd; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: f4a2fa31-2067-44f4-9351-26c3725312ab X-Archives-Hash: e53f97de985e11e03cb89c79a98b0f1e --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_21_45_48_+0100_P_XOGVVWP+4cmejd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:21:52 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > Have you tried adding "users" to your fstab? >=20 > Have you read the post before answering? >=20 > The option you mean is 'user' not 'users'. But I can't imagine how this > makes sense on / Actually, both user and users are valid mount options, with slightly different meanings. Neither is applicable here though, because / is mounted by root and both options only affect the ability to mount a device, not the permission to read/write it. What does "ls -ld /" show? --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware. --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_21_45_48_+0100_P_XOGVVWP+4cmejd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDAP8Bum4al0N1GQMRAv7iAKDMthRIDof75VLBn/s3HzGCVlIlTQCeJf2/ RfeBTHZ9fa0PdiSYnkOkcXo= =K25Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_21_45_48_+0100_P_XOGVVWP+4cmejd-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list