Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:37:14 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought Message-ID: <50B14C1A.3070605@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <D5720263-6E1E-40D5-BCEA-7246AAFB9B2C@lafn.org> References: <50B12EC7.6060705@tundraware.com> <D5720263-6E1E-40D5-BCEA-7246AAFB9B2C@lafn.org>
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On 11/24/2012 03:25 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> Can someone kindly explain what is going on here: >> >> Machine A: FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE >> (I don't recall seeing the behavior described below >> in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it). >> >> Machine B: Linux Mint Desktop >> >> - Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B. >> >> - Machine A exports a particular directory like this: >> >> /usr/foo -maproot=myid -network ... >> >> >> - /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein >> owned as root:root with permissions of 600. >> >> - If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it >> but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it. >> >> What's going on? Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything >> in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow >> things like renaming. Clearly I am missing something here, but I >> don't get it. > > What are the permissions on the directory /usr/foo/bar? 775 Let me correct something. The files in that directory are owned by root:wheel (not root:root - I got my *nixes confused), but they definitely have 600 perms. On Machine A, user 'myid' is IN the wheel group but I still don't see how he's getting permission to rename the file. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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