Mounting an encrypted volume presents the volume to all users on a machine

Vaclav Mocek little.owl at email.cz
Tue Oct 26 16:14:31 UTC 2010


On 10/26/2010 03:57 PM, nodata wrote:
> On 26/10/10 16:11, Andrew Haley wrote:
>    
>> On 10/26/2010 02:44 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +0200, nodata wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> What I am concerned about is that the volume is mounted for _every_ user
>>>> on the system to see.
>>>>          
>>> Only if the permissions are set that way. chmod 0750 /whatever and it
>>> won't be.
>>>        
>> On my system an auto-mounted exchangeable volume always seems to be 0700.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>      
> Really? Any chance of a copy-paste?
>
> This is what I get:
>
> $ ls -la /media/
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root 4096 Oct 26 16:51 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Oct 26 16:51 ..
> drwxr-xr-x.  4 root root 4096 Oct 23 17:40 WESTERNDIGITAL
>
>    
Exactly. It is 0755.


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