[Gllug] Files permission puzzle

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>How does that work? I suppose I could change the permissions in the
>directories on the server, but I am puzzled as to why, when this mounted
>read-write (afaics) there seems to be a higher authority than root.

no_root_squash. By default NFS servers do not trust the remote machine
as to who is root.

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