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| author | Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-11-24 08:33:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-11-24 08:33:07 +0000 |
| commit | a067eb525e10acc9d7e1f3b1a8a6dfeca42b4424 (patch) | |
| tree | b51ae340c9569282d36a3c153325a46fb977a245 /sbin | |
| parent | 5995c036df4871b10e3afb0810cdf73da670a745 (diff) | |
mount.8: document nosymfollow option
Document the nosymfollow mount option in more details.
Forgotten in 5ddc8ded1dbe650b7d83240a1f86a1eb6e2b9b5a
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/mount/mount.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8 index 154ad293aee4..877001727a8f 100644 --- a/sbin/mount/mount.8 +++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8 @@ -270,8 +270,11 @@ Note: this option is worthless if a public available suid or sgid wrapper is installed on your system. It is set automatically when the user does not have super-user privileges. .It Cm nosymfollow -Do not follow symlinks -on the mounted file system. +Do not follow symlinks on the mounted file system. +.Pp +This option is intended to be used when mounting file systems +from untrusted external storage systems or public writable /tmp file systems. +You can still create or remove symlinks, or read the value of a symbolic link. .It Cm ro Mount the filesystem read-only, even the super-user may not write it. Equivalent to @@ -571,6 +574,7 @@ support for a particular file system might be provided either on a static .Xr lsvfs 1 , .Xr setfacl 1 , .Xr nmount 2 , +.Xr symlink 2 , .Xr acl 3 , .Xr getmntinfo 3 , .Xr libxo 3 , @@ -584,6 +588,7 @@ support for a particular file system might be provided either on a static .Xr tarfs 4 , .Xr tmpfs 4 , .Xr fstab 5 , +.Xr symlink 7 , .Xr automount 8 , .Xr fstyp 8 , .Xr kldload 8 , |