On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:13:47 +0100
Ralph Seichter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list members,
>
> I set up Gentoo as an NFS server, and I am experiencing problems with
> one of my NFS clients. When this specific client creates new
> directories within the NFS-exported directory, the permissions are
> 0644 instead of 0755 ('executable' is missing). The client does not
> allow passing any arguments when mounting a remote directory, so I
> wonder if this can be fixed on the server side? My exports
> configuration looks like this:
>
> # /etc/exports
> /mnt/foo
> 192.168.235.0/24(rw,async,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1003,anongid=1003,insecure)
> /mnt/bar
> 192.168.235.0/24(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1003,anongid=1003,insecure)
>
> Both /mnt/foo and /mnt/bar were created like this:
>
> mkdir /mnt/foo && chown root:root /mnt/foo && chmod 1777 /mnt/foo
>
> It does not matter whether the client creates a new directory
> in /mnt/foo or /mnt/bar, the executable bit is always missing.
>
> Your ideas are appreciated. Thanks!
What sort of client is this, and what umask is it using?
That's regular shell umask, not some fancy thing related to fs mounts.
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Alan McKinnon
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