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From: dchapes@dyas.leitch.com (Dave Chapeskie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pwd problem with NFS
Date: 3 Sep 1994 16:00:41 -0400
Organization: Leitch Technologies International Inc.
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Message-ID: <34akl9$8pj@ale.dyas.leitch.com>
References: <33lntr$2ea@ale.dyas.leitch.com> <BLYMN.94Aug29125622@mallee.awadi.com.au>
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In article <BLYMN.94Aug29125622@mallee.awadi.com.au>,
Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote:
>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.
Ah Ah! It works okay now. But why does this happen? Shouldn't
either ls report the permissions on the underlying mount point or
shouldn't those permissions be ignored in favor of the permissions on the
mounted directory? It's seems stupid and confusing to be using one set
of permissions while displaying another. I wonder how many people get
burned on this one.
Thanks for the solution!
--
Dave Chapeskie
Leitch Technologies International Inc.
Email: dchapes@dyas.leitch.com or djchapes@sunee.uwaterloo.ca