Re: nfs and shifting permissions

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

BTW that goes the same with /etc/group as well  (you need to sync your uid
and gid on your boxes)

----- Original Message -----
From: "roy lo" <roylo@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: nfs and shifting permissions


> 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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