On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 15:56 +0200, Cyril B. wrote: > Hello, > > It looks like the mount point of the maps have fixed permissions, 755. I > need to have different permissions: in my use case, I want /home (which > is handled by autofs) to be set to 751. Why is this needed? > > The initial permissions of /home are overwritten when autofs is started, > so changing those doesn't help. They aren't overwritten. The permissions are those of the autofs mount that is mounted over /home. > > I can change the permissions of /home after autofs has started, but it's > really not convenient: there's no easy way to do that automatically with > either sysvinit or systemd. I still don't understand why this is needed. For indirect mounts no-one can copy things into the autofs mount and the permissions of mounts on mount points will be the same as those of the mounted file system when they are done. Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in
