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

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/26/2010 05:14 PM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> 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.
>>>      
>> 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.

$ ls -la /media
total 16
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root 4096 2010-10-26 17:56 ./
dr-xr-xr-x. 28 root root 4096 2010-09-16 04:24 ../
drwx------.  2 aph  aph  8192 1970-01-01 01:00 C0C1-215C/

Ahh, I think I may know why: it's a DOS filesystem.  Sorry for
the noise.

And yes, I agree.  0755 makes no sense to me.

Andrew.