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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pwd problem with NFS
Date: 29 Aug 1994 03:26:21 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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Message-ID: <BLYMN.94Aug29125622@mallee.awadi.com.au>
References: <33lntr$2ea@ale.dyas.leitch.com>
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In-reply-to: dchapes@leitch.interlog.com's message of 26 Aug 1994 17:47:39 -0400
>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Chapeskie <dchapes@leitch.interlog.com> writes:
In article <33lntr$2ea@ale.dyas.leitch.com> dchapes@leitch.interlog.com (Dave Chapeskie) writes:
Dave> Now I log into bitter as dchapes with a home directory
Dave> of /u/dchapes and pwd fails in /u, /u/dchapes, and
Dave> /outgate/dchapes but works in /outgate. The error is "pwd:
Dave> Permission denied". Tcsh reports the correct directory in
Dave> the prompt however.
Dave> I've checked all the permissions and I have read and
Dave> search all these directories ( including / ), my user id's
Dave> are the same on all three machines. I tried exporting the
Dave> file systems with -root=0 and the same thing happens.
No you have not checked all the permissions ;-) Unmount the nfs
mounted file systems and check the permissions on the underlying
mountpoints, if they are not read-execute for everyone then you will
get the strange messages you have been seeing.
--
Brett Lymn