Re: nfs and shifting permissions

["roy lo" <roylo@example.com>]

check your /etc/passwd file on both box, the chances are you have different
uid for those accounts between the 2 boxes.
ie. 500 is the uid for user on net.issho.org, but no user account with the
uid of 500 exist on asong2, and etc..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Laszlo" <laszlo@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:28 AM
Subject: nfs and shifting permissions


> Today's strangeness.
>
> After ssh'ing into net.issho.org and becoming root,
> I do this:
>
> chown -R user.user /mnt/directory/otherdirectory/
>
> As a result, all the files in the directory
> become user.user.
>
> _BUT_ when I ls -l /mnt/directory/
> from asong2.issho.org, a machine
> that has been capable of copying
> to and from /mnt/directory/ because
> it is connected via nfs, it shows
> the files as 500.500 (!).
>
> (the following
> is from asong2's /etc/fstab)
>
> net:/mnt/store          /mnt/nfs                nfs
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr  0  0
>
> Then, when I chown laszlo.laszlo these
> files from asong2.issho.net , they
> look alright from asong2 but become
> 505.505 as far as net.issho.org is
> concerned (!!).
>
> What is going on?!
>
>
>
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