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The permissions of the covered mount point usually only come into play
when accessing ".." from the root of the mounted fs.

This is true for Unix and BSD ... but I have never looked at this part 
of the Linux sources.

As a normal user try to
	cd /mnt/memstick  #OK
	pwd               #Fails unless cached by shell
	ls ..             #Should fail

with /mnt/memstick permission set to 700 and user root.

It is not really necessary to have matching permissions - but the wrong set
of permissions can cause interesting problems in a production environment.

	Stephan


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