Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-18 Thread Joost Witteveen
Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each

NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Christian Convey
My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with local security files. I

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home

NFS permissions skewed with linux 2.6 client

2004-08-25 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, I'm experiencing weird problems with file permissions on nfs-mounted directories: bash-2.05a$ whoami wouter bash-2.05a$ groups wouter wouter : wouter adm dialout floppy cdrom users openoffice src tape mysql telnetd video staff audio bash-2.05a$ pwd /home/algemeen bash-2.05a$ ls -la test

Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
I have come across an interesting ( :confused: ) and difficult problem with an nfs mount; maybe someone has an idea. THe basic situation is that I have one linux box (running MDK 8.2, but that's probably not relevant) that I have just set up as a file server, and a second linux box (running

Re: Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
The reason is, obviously, that cdrecord is setuid root, and so the attempt to open the iso file on the nfs share appeared to come from root, and with root_squash on the nfs export, it couldn't get at the file. [...] Any thoughts or suggestions? How about this? Use standard input for

Re: Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
That's a cool idea that I didn't think of. I was thinking of piping the output of mkisofs onto cdrecord directly: mkisofs options | cdrecord options instead. Since I have a bunch of standard mkisofs aliases that I use for backing up various chunks of data, my mkisofs command rarely fail so I

Re: NFS Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that server allow access from the requesting uid/gid just as if it were local possible ? If so, how would I specify that in /etc/exports ? (As root on the remote system, I would like access to root files on the

Re: NFS Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I was using root at first. After checking with other users I did notice that only root was not allowed. Now by adding no_root_squash everything works fine ! Thanks. On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that