[Gllug] Files permission puzzle

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:23 +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> 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.
> 

D'oh. Of course. Sorry.

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