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From: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@gmx.ch>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:14:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43019261.3070409@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815214548.6d3c7205@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>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.

Thanks, didn't knew that one. If I understand this right, then 'users' allows 
all users to unmount the filesystem, instead of just the user who did mount it 
in the first place?

Christoph
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 18:27 [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? Ralph Slooten
2005-08-15 19:12 ` Daniel da Veiga
2005-08-15 20:21   ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-15 20:45     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-16  1:07       ` Nick Rout
2005-08-16  5:21         ` Ralph Slooten
2005-08-16  5:17       ` Ralph Slooten
2005-08-16  5:41         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-16  7:00           ` Ralph Slooten
2005-08-16  7:17             ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-16 10:21               ` Michael Kintzios
2005-08-16  9:26             ` Nick Rout
2005-08-16  9:47               ` Frank Schafer
2005-08-16 13:33                 ` Ralph Slooten
2005-08-16  7:14       ` Christoph Gysin [this message]
2005-08-16  7:42         ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-16 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? (solved) Ralph Slooten

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