Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-22 Thread Andrew Bradford
Mel wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by setting permissions appropriately. Yes, exactly.

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew Bradford wrote: I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, but read-only for anyone else. It will be mounted as a backup directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current users on the system but can't be writeable, regardless of the file

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Bradford
Erik Norgaard escribió: Andrew Bradford wrote: I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, but read-only for anyone else. It will be mounted as a backup directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current users on the system but can't be

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by setting permissions appropriately. Yes, exactly. Users need to be able

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Bradford
Mel escribió: On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by setting permissions appropriately. Yes,

Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-21 Thread Mel
On Thursday 21 February 2008 22:22:34 Andrew Bradford wrote: Mel escribió: On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: Erik Norgaard escribió: I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply

Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Bradford
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a mounted filesystem that is read-write for root, but read-only for anyone else. It will be mounted as a backup directory, so files listed in that directory will be owned by current users on the system but can't be writeable, regardless of the file permissions.