On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson uttered:
> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're
> mounted, they're owned by amy.hall.
>
> amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "users" exists also
> and hall is a member of it.
>
What is happening here is, when mount points are exported over NFS, NFS
doesn't munge the UID/GID flags on the file. So, when you ls the files, ls
happily performs a UID lookup on it, which corresponds to a different user on
the system that the filesystem is being exported to.
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Steve
Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing
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