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- From: mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com (Mike Busby)
- Subject: NFS permission problems...
- Message-ID: <mcb.722208308@mach>
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- Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:25:08 GMT
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- Scenario:
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- 386BSD server, 386BSD client.
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- 386BSD running version 0.1 with latest patch kit.
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- Problem:
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- client mounts /home on server to /mnt on client, rw.
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- All directories in /home on server, including /home
- are mode 755, all files are mode 644.
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- All users in /home are in the same group in /etc/group.
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- Both client and server have the same /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries
- for users.
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- /etc/exports on server has:
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- /home
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- On client, cd into /mnt/user_home_directory (not owned by user executing
- commands). ls works ok, cd works ok.
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- Try to cat or more a file, get the following error:
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- command_name: Permission denied.
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- On server, notice that one of the nfsd daemons is now owned by the
- user on the client side that tried to access a file in
- /home/user_home_directory. I don't know if this is significant or not.
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- On client, cd into /home/my_own_home_directory.
- ls works ok, cd works ok. cat or more a file, everything is fine.
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- We cannot access files other than the ones we own even if the permissions
- are set to 666 on the files. We always get Permission denied.
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- We also see this problem if we have a Sun Sparc machine running SunOS 4.1.X
- as the client and a 386BSD configured as above as the server. Running
- the Sun as the server and the 386BSD box as the client does not exhibit
- the problem.
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- Any help or suggestions regarding this problem would be appreciated.
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- Thanks,
-
-
- Michael C. Busby - System Engineer, Sr.
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