On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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 > That's it! Thanks Craig, problem solved, but shouldn't root be able to descend into a 700 directory? What about root on another machine (given appropriate restrictions in iptables to network)? Maybe I've misunderstood what root can do. -- Hooroo, Simon Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
