From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 05:04:30 EDT
When you overmount something, it's gone! Anything you do with the mount
point will have no effect on the filesystem you mount on top of it.
You need to mount the filesystem before you set permissions and ownership.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naylor, Jim [mailto:Jnaylor@SCHNUCKS.COM]
> Sent: 26 June 2002 21:19
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Permissions change on mount point directory
>
>
> I have several 43P 150 RS/6000's running 4.3.3 (4/2002). If
> I create a
> directory (i.e. /home/rms) which is the home directory for a user, it
> creates the directory with the permissions 755. I then
> create a standard
> filesystem and mount it on this directory and the permissions of the
> directory change to 2755 on the directory /home/rms. Why is
> this doing this
> and how can I stop it form doing this. Your help is greatly
> appreciated.
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