On Mon, Joe Little wrote: > I have B47 bits on one of my servers, nad we recently discovered > something odd. Users from linux clients, if they have add a +s to a > file's group permissions w/o an +x there first, would actually lose > read access to the file itself (permission denied). It would seem that > the file handles are no longer correct for a rwxr-Sr-x type file > (incorrect assignment and all). > > It took a bit to figure out that added the execute bit returned the > file to the owner, but why should altering group permissions ever > effect the owner? > > Again, this is only with a Solaris NFS server and so far has been seen > on linux NFS clients. It definitely smells/tastes like an error.
Hi, Joe. Info about the underlying filesystem at the Solaris server and a binary snoop trace of the failing interaction would be the next steps to determining the root of the problem. Spencer
