[nmglug] change permissions on USB drive

[Nicholas S. Frost]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Nicholas Frost wrote:

>> My intention was to show that the perms of the unmounted directory
>> likely will _not_ be inherited. :)
>
> I'm pretty sure the permission are inherited by the user, so yes, not the
> directory but rather the user permissions....what I meant was the
> permissions will be inherited (by user) when mounted.
>
> If ROOT changes /mnt/usb from 755 to 700 and the user nickf mounts
> /mnt/usb (/dev/sdd1) the permissions will be 755, but the ownership will
> be inherited as the user performing the mount.

So, perhaps better (more correctly) said that *ownership* (not 
permissions) will be inherited...

Bad syntax on my part...hihi.

:-)

-Nick
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