Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:32:40 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions on NFS mounted homedir Message-ID: <199709230032.TAA05881@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:28:45 PDT." <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970922132805.15023A-100000@ds9>
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David Lowe writes: > > David - > > Thanks very much for the pointer, that fixed it. > > Pretty strange, though :) Well, I don't know if its that strange or not. It demonstrates something about the inner workings of Un*x and/or NFS, something that is basic enough that it is common between SGI's Irix and FreeBSD. Apparently a process has to access the underlying directory on which a filesystem is mounted (in this case NFS, is this unique to NFS) in order to know that a filesystem is mounted on that directory. So this hidden directory has to be readable or executable (which worked for you?) for the users who would access the filesystem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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