On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:49, Jake wrote:
Apologies, this is a poorly worded question. Let me try again.
My home partition seems to work despite the fact that it is mounted r/w only. No `x`. I've had a look at another machine set-up by someone more qualified than me and his permissions are the same. For the /home partition, permissions read rw-rw----.
In your original post the perms were for the device driver. It this still the same here? You cannot look at the perms for the driver but need to look at the perms for the mount point, in this case /home.
OK, say I wanted to have /temp on a seperate partition but wanted to bar anything from executing from /temp?
Jake
the "x" permission on a folder controls whether someone can view the controls of the folder -not- whether they can execute a program. That is controlled by the perms on the file. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)