[Klug-general] Permissions problem

Mike Evans mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
Thu Dec 15 11:41:53 UTC 2011


Sorry to come to this late.

If you are using NFS to mount the drive then it will work provided your 
user ID numbers are the same on each machine as that's what NFS uses. 
(Hopelessly insecure but hey they assume that you know what you're doing 
and can secure your network properly.)  However there is an exception to 
this:  root is protected and the default behaviour is to do what's 
called 'rootsquash' - which stops root on one machine being root on 
another.  There is some setting you can change to open that hole too if 
you really need to.

MikeE



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