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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>
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To: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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Subject: Re:  permissions on NFS mounted homedir
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David -

Thanks very much for the pointer, that fixed it.

Pretty strange, though :)

Thanks,

					David Lowe

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, David Kelly wrote:

> David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> writes:
> > 
> > On a recently built FreeBSD 2.2.2 machine, I'm getting a very strange
> > error from login shells for all users:
> > 
> > csh: Permission denied
> > csh: Trying to start from "/Users/dlowe"
> > 
> > This seems to happen regardless of which shell they are using. This
> > started happening when we cut the home directories over to an NFS mounted
> > disk.  I dug through some shell source code, and found the relevant
> > section of code.  It looks like the shell is getting an error from the
> > getwd() call.  But why? 
> > 
> > Home is /Users/dlowe -
> > # grep ^dlowe /etc/passwd
> > dlowe:*:12028:10:David Lowe:/Users/dlowe:/bin/csh
> > 
> > I have r-x access to the directory, and each interim directory -
> > # ls -ald /
> > drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel  512 Sep 18 12:14 /
> > # ls -ald /Users
> > drwxr-xr-x  105 root  daemon  2048 Aug 29 15:16 /Users
> 
> Stop right here. What are the permissions on /Users *before* you mount
> another fs on top of it? I've found it matters on SGI systems. 0755
> is good, 0700 is not. Forgot if 0711 worked.
> 
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
> ======================================================================
> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
>