Hi, I'm struggling with getting the permissions on an NFS share right. Mounting the NFS share on my client works. Read/write access as user 'root' works, and read access as user 'mail' works as well after I successfully authenticated at the Kerberos server as that user 'mail'. Kerberos server and NFS server are the same machines.
Only write-access to the NFS share as user 'mail' doesn't work. The share directory is owned by 'mail:mail' both on the server and on the client. UID and GID are the same (8) for 'mail' on server an client. What am I missing here? svr# cat /etc/exports /export XXX.XX.XX.XXX(sec=krb5i,rw,sync, \ no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,fsid=0) /export/vmail XXX.XX.XX.XXX(sec=krb5i,rw,sync, \ no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) svr# showmounts --exports /export/vmail XXX.XX.XX.XXX /export XXX.XX.XX.XXX svr# ls -ald /export/vmail drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 4096 Jun 28 12:58 /export/vmail clt# grep vmail /etc/fstab nfs-server:/vmail /var/vmail nfs4 sec=krb5i 0 0 clt# mount | grep vmail nfs-server:/vmail on /var/vmail type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.0, \ rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0, \ timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=krb5i,clientaddr=XXX.XX.XX.XXX, \ local_lock=none,addr=XXX.XX.XX.XXX) clt# ls -ald /var/vmail drwxrwsr-x 2 mail mail 4096 Oct 17 2014 /var/mail root@clt# echo test >/var/vmail/test.txt root@clt# cat /var/vmail/test.txt test root@clt# su -s /bin/sh -c "cat /var/vmail/test.txt" mail test root@clt# su -s /bin/sh -c "touch /var/vmail/test" mail touch: cannot touch ‘/var/vmail/test’: Permission denied The Kerberos ticket for local user 'mail' is managed by k5start: clt# ps -ef |grep k5start | grep mail root 8965 1 0 16:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/k5start -u \ mail/nfs-client -o mail -p /var/run/k5start-mail.pid -b \ -f /etc/krb5.keytab -L -K 30 I don't understand why I don't have write access to the share as client user 'mail' (authenticated to Kerberos server as 'mail/nfs-client'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55903409.4080...@freesources.org