Bengt Ohman on Thu 9/03 15:37 +0100:
> > A read-only, autofs mounted NFS export from a Solaris server does
> > not seem to allow me to execute `ssh' as a normal user; it is mode
> > 04711. As soon as I change it to 04755 it works fine. However, on
> > a local filesystem, I do not need the read bit in order to execute
> > it.
>
> If it's 04711, you need root access to the disk in order to read it.
but as a normal user, I don't have root access to the disk. The system
does...ahh, I see, because it is suid root, then it allows the process
root access to the disk.
However, on a Solaris client, the same 04711 file mounted from a remote
machine executes fine, even though I have not exported it to acknowledge
root privs on the client (it executes as `nobody' I presume). Hence,
the behavior is different on the Linux client.
I still don't know if this is an autofs issue, an NFS issue, or my own
stupidity :) But the Solaris client doesn't need read access on the
client, while the Linux one does.
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