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# 8  
Old 09-19-2012
But a home directory should be read write for the owner...
I am not saying its impossible but in that case the behaviour can be unpredictable...
For instance what happens when /home (where user should be by default...) is full?
I varies between cant connect to connected at / which is readonly ( and you have the system defautl profile without history etc...).
What you should do since its a file system:
1) umount the file system, and be sure its set to root as it is now (755) or even better 555 ( but is this a true user or an application UID because some apps dont like at all to be readonly...) then mount the file system and change he owner to the correct user if its an app you would usually use 775 or 771 ... with group to <appgrp>...
This is to prevent in case of file system not present that user connect and fill in the directory ( which is usually on /...) and risk corrupting the whole server's behavious ( I saw some crash...).
Last edited by vbe; 09-19-2012 at 10:53 AM.. Reason: heck typos...
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# 9  
Old 09-19-2012
I was told by the app vendor no to mess with permissions on their directories, so they want us to stick with the user they provided.

thanks again
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