Apparently, though unproven, at 16:13 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de did opine thusly:
> Hi, > > my /tmp has the permissions set to 1777 . And it is the mountpoint for > an extra partitions holding the stuff of '/tmp/' > > > When booting into single-user mode and unmounting /tmp and doing > a > > ls -ld /tmp > > it shows > > drwxrwxrwt 45 root root 61440 2010-12-15 15:07 /tmp > > BUT > > as soon as I mount the device on /tmp and doing the same ls -ld > again it shows > > > drwsrwsrwt 45 root root 61440 2010-12-15 15:07 /tm > > > That looks not ok to me. > > /etc/fstab has an entry which "options" field is set to "default" > > And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless > of its perm settings before the mount > > > What is the reason for this? What filesystem type? You probably have some defaults set that make it suid/sgid, but these things are filesystem-dependant and for that we need to know the type -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com