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From: hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney)
Subject: NFS permission problems
Message-ID: <1992Nov13.034141.2608@moxie.hou.tx.us>
Sender: hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney)
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:41:41 GMT
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Scenario: two machines running 386BSD, patchkit applied:

When a file system is NFS mounted across the network, files can
be read ONLY if the person owns the remote file. The files can
be mode 666, but still not readable unless they own them.

Is this the intended behavior, or is something awry?
--
Greg Hackney
hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us