You will see that those files are listed with a UID/GID number instead of
the name. Root will have access to those files, but no one else unless you
have a local user or group mapped to those UID/GIDs. NFS works the same way.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:27, Fletcher Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> I am currently using sshfs to mount a remote filesystem. The files
> come up on my local box as having the same uid/gids as on the remote
> host. I do not have these uids/gids set up on my local system however.
> The thrust of my question is this: How does linux deal with uid/gids
> that are unknown to the system?  Does it just ignore the permissions
> on those files and act as if you were root when dealing with them?
>
> Thanks.
>
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