On 16:15 04 Sep 2003, Reuben D. Budiardja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a strange problem. On my of the server, I export a directory and | specify it as ro. In /etc/fstab: | | /home/httpd client1.domain.name(ro) | | On client1.domain.name, as root, I created a directory in /mnt/ and write in | /etc/fstab: | | server.phys.utk.edu:/home/httpd /mnt/server nfs | rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr | | As root, if I open the files in /mnt/server, they are in read only mode. But | if I login as myself, they are readable and writable. How can that be? | | The uid in the server corresponds with my uid in client1, and so in client1 it | says that I owned all the files in /mnt/server. But since I specify it as | read only in the /etc/exports file in server, I think it should be read only | in client1 no matter who's login, or am I missing something?
Have you checked that they really are writable? The permissions will look unchanged. However, any actual attempt to write should get met with EROFS "Read Only Filesystem". So, in short, have you just looked, or have you tried to write to a file? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ [...] post-block actions should be allowed everywhere, not just on subroutines. The ALWAYS keyword was agreed upon as a good way of doing this, although POST was also suggested. This lead to the semi-inevitable rehash of the try- catch exception handling debate. According to John Porter, "There is no try, there is only do. :-)" - from the perl6 development discussion -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
