mount privileges...what the heck?

[Robert C Wittig]

DW wrote:

> no, the first time this was my thought too, I've been known to do stuff 
> like this, especially since so much activity is done with 'sudo', but we 
> went back (each of us on our respective machines), and did it again, 
> making sure we were doing it as 'dude', not sudo or 'root', and it 
> happened every time.

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>> % mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2 ...or
>> $ mkdir /usr/home/dude/drive2
> I swear, that's what we did!!!! :) Maybe I'm losing it?, but we went 
> back and verified and verified, and still scratching our heads.

Well... I was responding precisely to your post, where you used the '#' 
prompt in your example, which is the root prompt.

The '%' and '$' prompts traditionally indicate non-root users.


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