I am wondering how I can control the permissions of a directory created dynamicall using autofs.
I have autofs4 enabled (sarge). I have a map for the /mount directory (called /etc/auto.mount), which has an entry for my floppy drive (/dev/fd0). The problem is that ordinary (non root) users cannot write to a floppy. If I put in a blank floppy and try to copy a file to it (cp <file> /mount/floppy), the autofs created directory /mount/floppy has owner.group root.root (the owner/group of /mount),and permissions rwxr--r-- (the permissions of the /mount directory). Presumably autofs is creating the /mount/floppy directory with the propagated permissions of /mount. I don't want to chmod /mount to rwxrw-rw-, because that would allow ordinary users to potentially drop files, etc, into /mount itself. Does anyone know of a way to affect the behavoir of autofs to create the subdirectory with the needed permissions? I though of changing the map to run a script that does the mount and chmod's is; I don't know if that is possible or not. I could chgrp /mount to some useful group (like floppy), set its permissions to rwxrw-r-- and let anyone who needs to write to the floppy be in the floppy group, but that would still allow those users the ability to write into /mount, and that's not what is required - they just need to be able to write into /mount/floppy. nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
