[Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Experimental Release based on Debian Lenny

Punky Tse (spam-protected)
Mon Nov 24 17:35:48 HKT 2008


Hi Fabian and all,

I am looking into the permission problem now.

But any easy way to copy the directory permission settings of /var/tmp 
to other directory without copy the content?

Regards,
Punky

fabian+voyage at progra.de wrote:
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root      80 Oct 28 10:09 tmp
>>     
> It seems that aufs merges the permissions from the two underlaying
> directories with an bitwise AND operation. With the resulting
> permissions no non-root owned process can write to /tmp which isn't to
> good. ;)
>
> doing
>   
>> voyage:/# chmod 777 /lib/init/rw/tmp
>> voyage:/# chmod o+t /lib/init/rw/tmp
>>     
> before the mount command fixes the problem.
>
> Maybe the voyage-sync script should adopt the permissons from the
> SYNC_DIRS when creating there counterparts in /lib/init/rw ?
>
>
> Greetings
> Fabian
>   





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