From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 19:10:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08197 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08176 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-130.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.130]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA12966; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:10:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA05881; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:32:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709230032.TAA05881@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: David Lowe cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: permissions on NFS mounted homedir In-reply-to: Message from David Lowe of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:28:45 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:32:40 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.