On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 08:34 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 14:04 +0000, g wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Simon Slater wrote: > > > > > I have a share (/home) on box A, an external hard-drive attached to > > > box B to which only root can write. I can mount A:/home on B and browse > > > and open the files, but when (as root on B) attempting to copy files > > > from the mounted share to the external drive I get the error: > > > cp: cannot access ' /mnt/ipex/home/simon':Permission denied. > > > > read/write permission in 'fstab'. > > Thanks g but this is a temporary setup so I'm mounting manually as > needed and /etc/exports on A is set to rw,sync. ---- I think from the little information I see is that you aren't having an issue with the 'share' but rather the directories. If directories are perms rwx______ (700) then no one can descend into the folders but if they were rwxr_xr_x (755), then users could descend into the directories and read the files contained inside them. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
