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| author |   natano <natano@openbsd.org> | 2016-10-04 21:10:51 +0000 |
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| committer | natano <natano@openbsd.org> | 2016-10-04 21:10:51 +0000 |
| commit | 2cb362923d4f546d678357e55b0bfba72ccbb20f (patch) | |
| tree | b74dc980da60f171445a743b83cecc67d026762b | |
| parent | remove signify.pm and x509.pm (diff) | |
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Improve description of the noperm option.
ok jmc (on an earlier version of the diff), tb (who found a typo) and deraadt
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/mount/mount.8 | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8 index 6383484ac33..64245314ecc 100644 --- a/sbin/mount/mount.8 +++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.85 2016/09/10 18:33:28 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.86 2016/10/04 21:10:51 natano Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.11 1995/07/12 06:23:21 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)mount.8 8.7 (Berkeley) 3/27/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 4 2016 $ .Dt MOUNT 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -199,8 +199,14 @@ This option is useful for a server that has file systems containing binaries for architectures other than its own. .It noperm (FFS only) -Allow the owner of the mount point to perform operations on the file system -usually only allowed as the root user. +Do not check permissions when creating, accessing or modifying files and +directories in the mounted file system. +This allows unprivileged users to construct a file hierarchy containing +special device nodes and files with arbitrary file mode, owner or group +without restriction. +The noperm option also enables the nodev and noexec options to ensure +that interpretation of the file modes and special devices cannot be +used to gain privileges. .It norw An alias for rdonly. .It nosuid |