Debian 11 revoked mount-point privileges and created second mount-point with privileges
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System revoked mount-point privileges and created second mount-point with privileges.
Background: User account with sudo privileges.
Issue: New mount point created, with read, write, execute permissions, by system without notifying user. Read, write, execute privileges for original mount-point revoked by system. New mount-point has the same name as original mount-point except for a "1" appended to the end.
Same happened with two other connected drives at the same time: 2nd internal data hard drive and a USB flash device. Again, the new mount-point names are the same except for being appended with a "1".
So far all I've done is search the net, with no results.
I should probably mention that I remember accidentally hitting some keyboard keys prior to this discovery.
I know how to configure permissions. I'm only curious as to how or why this happened. Everything still works okay as long as I take the new mount-point into consideration. This system has functioned for several years with no issues. Hats off to the Debian crew for a terrific OS.
Hard drives:
1 TB boot SSD
6 TB data hard drive
4 TB data hard drive
500 GB USB memory device
Two data hard drives are mounted manually after boot (no entries in fstab for these two data hard drives). Also, USB memory device connected and auto mounts.
Hardware about ten years old
OS Debian 11 stable (with all current updates)
CPU Intel Core i7 5930K (Haswell-E)
RAM 16 GB DDR4 Corsair
Chipset Intel X99
Motherboard Asus X99 Deluxe
Video MSI GTX 970
Background: User account with sudo privileges.
Issue: New mount point created, with read, write, execute permissions, by system without notifying user. Read, write, execute privileges for original mount-point revoked by system. New mount-point has the same name as original mount-point except for a "1" appended to the end.
Same happened with two other connected drives at the same time: 2nd internal data hard drive and a USB flash device. Again, the new mount-point names are the same except for being appended with a "1".
So far all I've done is search the net, with no results.
I should probably mention that I remember accidentally hitting some keyboard keys prior to this discovery.
I know how to configure permissions. I'm only curious as to how or why this happened. Everything still works okay as long as I take the new mount-point into consideration. This system has functioned for several years with no issues. Hats off to the Debian crew for a terrific OS.
Hard drives:
1 TB boot SSD
6 TB data hard drive
4 TB data hard drive
500 GB USB memory device
Two data hard drives are mounted manually after boot (no entries in fstab for these two data hard drives). Also, USB memory device connected and auto mounts.
Hardware about ten years old
OS Debian 11 stable (with all current updates)
CPU Intel Core i7 5930K (Haswell-E)
RAM 16 GB DDR4 Corsair
Chipset Intel X99
Motherboard Asus X99 Deluxe
Video MSI GTX 970