From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Nov 16 18:57:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA20371 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-gw.dalsys.com (i-gw.dalsys.com [207.42.153.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20358 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by i-gw.dalsys.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA06068; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 20:56:47 -0600 Received: from future.dsc.dalsys.com(199.170.161.3) by i-gw.dalsys.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006066; Sat Nov 16 20:56:45 1996 Received: by future.dsc.dalsys.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/8.6.12) id AA162293; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:02:21 -0600 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:02:18 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Stanford X-Sender: richards@future.dsc.dalsys.com To: Ricardo Kleemann Cc: FreeBSD ISP list Subject: Re: weird error with NFS In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > 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. This is a security feature to reduce the chance of someone on another box doing bad things to your NFS server. There are ways to get around it, but do you really want to? -Richard