On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:57 +0100, Matt Bernstein wrote: > On Sep 3 Matt Bernstein wrote: > > > Further archaeology suggests that traversing home directories only works > > if they have 755 permissions. > > > > I've no idea why. > > Just to clarify, the "they" refers to the NFS-mounted directory. We try > not to create home directories with 755 perms. > > /server/cream/export71/users/mb and /home/cream/home71/mb traverse > correctly, saying "Permission denied". The former is the NFS mount, and > the latter a bind mount. They both work irrespective of whether the other > is mounted or not. > > /homes/mb says "No such file or directory". The log suggests it's trying > to do an NFS mount, when it should be another bind mount. > > /homes/dave (cream:/export74/users/dave having 755 perms) works perfectly, > with two bind mounts and one NFS mount.
Can you send the log please. > > Me and my layers of indirection... I suppose I could solve it by making > /homes/mb bind straight to :/server/cream/export71/users/mb, but that > wouldn't stop the bug from being there. Yep. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
