On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:47:27AM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote:
> 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
NFS sees no difference between read and exec: the 'x' might not be enough
to execute it as a normal user.
--
Frank
