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 1E4vla-0006Bn-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:21:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7G7J2bb030018; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:19:02 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7G7E6oU023722 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:14:06 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2005 07:14:43 -0000 Received: from 84-72-130-34.dclient.hispeed.ch (EHLO [127.0.0.1]) [84.72.130.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 16 Aug 2005 09:14:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1076219 Message-ID: <43019261.3070409@gmx.ch> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:14:41 +0200 From: Christoph Gysin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I (user) can write to / ... but why? References: <4300DE8A.2090205@gmail.com> <342e10905081512127bf9c2be@mail.gmail.com> <4300F960.5040900@gmx.ch> <20050815214548.6d3c7205@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050815214548.6d3c7205@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: d2085f1f-4996-4ab4-a78d-0f9af6e65e52 X-Archives-Hash: dcf192f875c7871dae0781993cf41853 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 -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list