Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!hanche From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: NFS for Apollo Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 21:21:07 GMT References: Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Distribution: comp Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: hanche@imf.unit.no's message of 14 Mar 91 16:34:38 In article hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: Short summary: Problem with a mounted foreign file system. From the mounting node, only root has access privileges ... as an ordinary user on the node that did the mount: hufsa 136 % ls /global/ugle insufficient rights (process manager/mapped segment manager) (/global/ugle is the NFS mounted Sun file system) David Ward has solved this particular mystery for me: The `node_data/system_logs/nfs_data file needs to be world writable! Of course that is what you get if you leave ACLs as Apollo intended, but I am one of those overzealous sysadmins who tried to close things up. And /usr/adm (or `node_data/system_logs) is one directory which I have 'chacl -B'-ed. So when I manually mounted the volume, or perhaps the first time I accessed it, the current umask had the effect of setting nfs_data's permissions to 755, which ain't good enough. Any wonder people are afraid to stomp around in `node_data, tightening up accesses? I just wonder how many of our "unexplainable" problems arise from similar sources... - Harald Hanche-Olsen Division of Mathematical Sciences The Norwegian Institute of Technology N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY