Re: Permissions for root user

2015-03-30 Thread Yair Yarom
On Mon, Mar 30 2015, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Yair Yarom: Our nfs servers are NetAPP and FreeBSD machines (not user space...). Ok. And your NFS client is debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 as Christoph's? Sorry, I've probably should have mentioned it, we compile our own kernels (currently only

Re: Permissions for root user

2015-03-30 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Essentially aufs checks the permission by calling VFS routine or branch fs's routine. I still don't undrestand your situation. Does this script surely reproduce the problem? This script prints 0 at the end when everything is fine. The script prints 0 - but it does not check the case

Re: Permissions for root user

2015-03-30 Thread Yair Yarom
On Sat, Mar 28 2015, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Yair Yarom: I think we encountered a similar issue, in our case with the /var/log/* directories (and sometimes /var/cache/man). I don't think it's a real permission issue as we get Operation not supported and not Permission denied.

Re: Permissions for root user

2015-03-30 Thread sfjro
Christoph Pleger: The script prints 0 - but it does not check the case where my error occurs, when the directory where root wants to create a file does not belong to root and root has no normal write permissions in that directory, but he should be able to create a file because of superuser

Re: Permissions for root user

2015-03-30 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, The owner of the dir is 'bin' instead of 'root.' Isn't it enough? Would you modify the script to reproduce the problem? Sorry, after the result of the script was 0, I did a quick check of the script code and obviously I missed the line where chown is called. Now I found that the