SUMMARY: Permission problem with NFS mounts

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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:22:40 -0400
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

Hi,
Thanks to the fine folks at HP, the answer to the NFS permission problem is
a bug:

   "It looks like when we fixed a problem where we were crashing
   because there was too much information in the mode passed back from
   some NFS clients to our NFS server we trucated the mode
   too far and lost the setuid and setgid bits. This problem is
   specific to NFS V3. The "fix" went into the patch kits for all
   versions, so if you had stayed at V4.0F and gone to the newest
   patch kit you would have seen it there as well."

The fix for the "fix" could be in the first patch kit release after the
first of the year.

Original question:

> We've just upgraded our servers to Tru64 5.1B (from 4.0F), and I'm having
> trouble exporting/mounting (using direct and autofs) NFS file systems
with
> the correct permissions. Our CM tool needs to be able to set the uid and
> gid permission bits. I can set the bits local to the server, but when I
> export the file system, I cannot set them on the clients.
>
> I'm running just the basic, out-of-the-box security, so there's nothing
> fancy there. I'm guessing that there's some export flag or autofs
argument
> that I'm missing, but I can't find what I'm looking for in the books.
>
> Has anyone encountered this, too?

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