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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:31:17 +0000 ()
From: Justen Stepka <raistlin@chaos.ecpnet.com>
To: Ricardo Kleemann <ricardo@americasnet.com>
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Subject: Re: weird error with NFS
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file system mounted over NFS (/home directory).
> Anyway, if I'm a user I can go into my home directory and make changes.
> However, AS ROOT I keep getting "Permission Denied"! A check on permissions
> reports nothing out of the ordinary.
>
> /home is owned by root.wheel
> However, as root I CANNOT create a directory under /home ! :( This
> symptom only happens due to /home being NFS-mounted (as client).
> The NFS server is a linux box, the client (the one reporting premission
> denied) is a freebsd box. The mount was performed with rw of course, and
> as I said, if I su to any user, go to his home directory and touch
> anything it works fine. It's just root! who can't do anything...
>
> Any ideas???
>
> TIA,
> Ricardo
>
no_root_sqaush will fix that
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