2009/174 VERY SHORT TIMEOUT smbfs mount permissions

[Gordon Ross]

> 'fileperms' or 'dirperms'?  If the former, why user 'x' permission?  And
> why still leave a default dirperms that allows other users to see one's
> file names?

First, to clarify, this question is about things that are NOT changed by
this proposal: the owner permissions, and defaulting the dirperms from
the fileperms (with x bits added).

The only thing that changes is the default fileperms, which
before was taken from the mounted-on directory (typically 755)
and after this change the default would be the fixed value 700.

Hope that helps.

Gordon