Mount changing mount point rights?

[Ceri Davies]

On 9 Feb 2006, at 12:52, Norberto Meijome wrote:

> hi all,
> I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder.  
> I am
> member of wheel.
>
> I start with
>  Home directory:
> drwxr-x---  51 betom      betom      3072 Feb  9 23:38 betom
>
> file and folder which i want to mount in.
>
> drwxrwx---   2 betom  betom         512 Feb  9 17:42 mount_folder
> -rw-rw----   1 betom  betom  6144000000 Feb  9 23:38 geli.dsk
>
> I then define the md device, attach it to geli (it was already init  
> and
> newfs -U run on it), fsck
>
> sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./_1.dsk -u 13
> sudo geli attach /dev/md13
> fsck -p -t ufs /dev/md13.eli
>
> the devices look like this :
> $ ls -l /dev/md*
> crw-r-----  1 root  wheel    0, 121 Feb  9 22:24 /dev/md13
> crw-r-----  1 root  wheel    0, 122 Feb  9 23:23 /dev/md13.eli
> crw-rw----  1 root  wheel    0,  87 Feb  9 22:24 /dev/mdctl
>
> Then mount it:
> sudo mount /dev/md13.eli /home/betom/mount_folder
>
> PROBLEM : the mount folder has changed it's access from
> 770 betom:betom
> to
> 750 root:wheel
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root   wheel         512 Feb  9 18:51 mount_folder
> -rw-rw----   1 betom  betom  6144000000 Feb  9 23:50 geli.dsk
>
> umask :
> $ umask
> 0022
>
> [betom at ayiin] [Thu Feb  9 23:48:53 2006]
> ~
> $ sudo umask
> 0022
>
>
> WHY is it doing that?! Since I want to use this folder as my own  
> user ,
> not root, I have to do the extra step of changing owner of the folder
> every time...quite annoying.
> how can I fix this?

The owner of the "root" folder on the filesystem on md13.eli is root.
Just chown/chmod it once it's mounted and it'll stick.

Ceri
-- 
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                                                   -- Moliere



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