Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

[Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:20:29PM +0100, Alexis Kotte wrote:
> > movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte
> 
> What does `ls -l /var/mail/kotte` show as the file's owner?  File
> permissions across NFS only work if your UID is the same on both
> machines or you run an additional daemon (whose name escapes me) to
> handle mapping the client's UID to the server's.
> 

ugidd is the daemon IIRC. 

I'm surpried it works as root... must have no-root-squash set.

--Rich

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Rich Puhek               
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