SUMMARY: NFS: chmod and chgrp

DP2 David A. Wanamaker (dwanama@nmic.navy.mil)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:33:21 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, DP2 David A. Wanamaker wrote:
>
> I have a partition from a network appliances server mounted on my
> Solaris 2.5 box. The admin person for the network appliances server gave
> me root access to the mounted partition. With the root access, I would
> assume that I *have* root privileges on the partition. But I don't. I
> can not chown or chgrp any of the directories/files that I make.

First off, my apologies for the above e-mail being sent out 3 times...

I'd like to thank the following people for replying back:

Mike Carson <Mike.Carson@telos.com>
Andy J. Stefancik <ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com>
Glenn Pitcher <gpitcher@comstream.com>
Deepak_D_Wilson@notes.seagate.com
Derek Flynn <flynn@cs.uchicago.edu>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Igor Schein <igor@andrew.air-boston.com>

Welp, I should've known what the problem was right away. But since I
was told that I had been given root privileges, I though the problem was
on my end. The NetApp sysadmin had the following entry in her
/etc/dfs/dfstab file:

share -F nfs -o rw=my.host.machine /directory/to/share

This only gave my machine read/write privileges.

In order for my machine to have root access to the mounted filesystem,
the NetApp sysadmin had to edit the entry to:

share -F nfs -o root=my.host.machine /directory/to/share

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