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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS root access
Message-ID: <3214@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Aug 90 15:06:55 GMT
References: <3206@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <3206@skye.ed.ac.uk> I wrote:
>If the owner of the file then tries to read it, he will likewise
>get a "Permission denied" error, because the client has cached the
>result of the NFS read

Jim Reid has pointed out to me that this is wrong.  The client does
actually seem to be doing a read from the server, but is passing it
uid 0 (which gets translated to -2) instead of the owner's uid.

-- Richard
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