From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 14: 2:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sac.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-2.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEE837B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 14:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beemern@telecom.ksu.edu) Received: (from root@localhost) by sac.telecom.ksu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA03682 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:04:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by sac.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma003680; Thu, 31 May 01 16:03:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3B16B1A3.60E667C8@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:03:31 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "permission denied" on NFS mount Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the UID of 'nathan' on my freebsd nfs client system 1000 UID 1000 is user 'camk' on the NFS server. in the 'ls' below, you can see where his username shows up as me so ls'ing the nfs mount gives: [nathan@sabre cvs]$ ls -la total 32 drwxrwsr-x 13 5006 telc 4096 Jun 21 1999 . drwxrwxrwx 44 root sys 4096 May 31 15:26 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 5006 telc 4096 May 8 15:48 CVSROOT drwxrwsr-x 3 1035 telc 96 Mar 4 1998 bin drwxrwsr-x 5 1035 telc 4096 Mar 4 1998 book drwxrwsr-x 4 5006 telc 96 Mar 4 1998 doc drwxrwsr-x 10 1018 telc 4096 May 31 15:06 jdev drwxrwsr-x 17 nathan telc 4096 Jan 18 16:11 jtdb drwxrwsr-x 5 1035 telc 4096 Jan 18 16:11 poll drwxrwsr-x 3 5006 telc 96 Apr 10 2000 src drwxrwsr-x 12 1035 telc 4096 May 29 11:42 tdb drwxrwsr-x 4 1035 telc 96 Sep 22 1997 telc drwxrwsr-x 2 root telc 96 Aug 15 1996 xdm and here's what happens: [nathan@sabre cvs]$ touch jtdb/foo [nathan@sabre cvs]$ touch jdev/foo touch: jdev/foo: Permission denied [nathan@sabre cvs]$ now, since camk is the owner of jtdb/ it allows me write perms however, it SHOULD allow me the same for jdev/ but it doesn't what i did, was i created a group with the same name and gid on MY box as the NFS server. ie "telc" and added nathan to that group. so, with the perms shown in the above 'ls', group members SHOULD be able to write to ANY directory shown!? what gives? how do i fool the NFS server into letting me write to these locations? from my /etc/fstab --snip-- foo:/local /opt/local nfs rw,noauto 0 0 --snip-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message