On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 19:10 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> > That's exactly the problem. The first obvious solution doesn't work.
> > Your second solution does. The directory must have the execute bit set
> > for other, or the the file cannot be edited, no matter who owns the
> > directory (unless the owner/group is nobody/nogroup).
>
> Is it a edit problem or a directory-enter problem (i.e. can you do a "cd d"?).
>
> Is it a general file access problem or only with vi (i.e. can do "echo bla >> file")
>
> If it is a vi specific problem maybe the locking is the problem:
>
> The insecure_locks on Linux server is needed, cause Linux NFS Server will
> serve lock requests normally only from root users, and True64 requests from
> unpriveledged daemon user. This means fctnl locking cannot be done, and this
> might be a problem for vi.
Huh? No it doesn't. The Linux NLM server requires that the client
authenticate using AUTH_SYS (unless you use insecure_locks), but it
certainly doesn't require you to have root privileges. That would
violate POSIX locking rules.
Cheers,
Trond
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