On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 08:36 -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:
> If I mount a linux export on Tru64, it seems the execute bit for 'other'
> needs to be set on a directory in order edit files within it using vi.
> 'Nobody' and 'nogroup' also appear to be special.
man 5 exports
read all about the "no_root_squash" option
As for your problem accessing files in the directory
drwxr-x--- 2 root system 4096 Dec 22 08:22 d/
as an unprivileged user on group 'kmw', the solution is obvious:
'chgrp kmw d'
or
chmod a+x d
Cheers,
Trond
> I'm running 2.6.14.3 on Debian Sarge.
>
> For example.
>
> On linux, in directory /db/test:
>
> 1185# ll
> total 16
> drwxr-x--x 2 root kmw 4096 Dec 21 22:39 a/
> drwxr-x--- 2 nobody kmw 4096 Dec 21 22:39 b/
> drwxr-x--- 2 rpeterso nogroup 4096 Dec 21 22:46 c/
> drwxr-x--- 2 root system 4096 Dec 22 08:22 d/
>
> where /etc/exports looks like
>
> /db/test \
> depot.p(rw,sync) \
> polar.p(rw,sync,insecure_locks)
>
> I mount this on Tru64 like:
>
> mount -o tcp yogi.p:/db/test dbtest
>
> Each directory a,b,c,d has a small text file named 'test':
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root kmw 5 Dec 21 22:39 test
>
> As a user in group kmw I can edit this file in directory a, b, and c. I
> can't edit the file in directory d.
>
> I understand that Tru64 doesn't send matching credentials with nfs lock
> requests. The 'insecure_locks' option seems to help work around
> permission problems on the files themselves, but doesn't seem to work
> around the permissions of the owning directory.
>
> It's probably fair to point fingers at Tru64, but it seems unlikely
> there will be any changes to nfs on that side...
>
> I'm not subscribed the lkml, so cc's are appreciated.
>
> Best.
>
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