On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
> In FreeBSD, mount privilege is controlled by the vfs.usermount
> sysctl (default: off), so df must still be setgid operator to work
> on devices.
>
> The mount() method is better because can work on work on all types
> of filesystems that the kernel under
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Paul Herman wrote:
> This brings up a slightly related question: Now that "cooked" block
> devices have been abolished, wouldn't it be a good idea to get rid of
> the quick mount(2)/umount(2) of /tmp/df.XX to stat the file
> system? Something like the following patch.
Sorry to follow up on my own mail...
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Paul Herman wrote:
> This brings up a slightly related question: Now that block
> devices have been abolished, wouldn't it be a good idea to get rid
> of the quick mount(2)/umount(2) of /tmp/df.XX to stat the file
> system?
I see n
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Paul Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > I'm wondering why /bin/df is set-gid to the operator group
> > > by default.
> >
> > It's to df filesystems that aren't mounted. Try "df /dev/ad0s1a" (or
>
Paul Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > I'm wondering why /bin/df is set-gid to the operator group
> > by default.
>
> It's to df filesystems that aren't mounted. Try "df /dev/ad0s1a" (or
> whatever) as user nobody with chmod 555 /bin/df.
Ah,
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> I'm wondering why /bin/df is set-gid to the operator group
> by default.
It's to df filesystems that aren't mounted. Try "df /dev/ad0s1a" (or
whatever) as user nobody with chmod 555 /bin/df.
-Paul.
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Hi,
This is probably the wrong list, but I have no idea where
else to ask, and -current is also affected, so ...
I'm wondering why /bin/df is set-gid to the operator group
by default. I have tried to remove the s bit, and it is
still working fine. Looking at the source code didn't give
me a cl
