CVS permission problem on NFS partition

[Malcolm Kay]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:43, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote:
> Sorry if this is a repost, I had some problems with my mail account
> yesterday and did not see my mail on the list, so here it comes again.
>
> Hi,
>
> I apologize if this is a bit offtopic as it is not entirely
> FreeBSD-specific, but I did not know where to post otherwise. If anybody
> knows a list more suitable for this question, please tell me.
>
> The scenario:
>
> I am running a FreeBSD 5.0 p7 release box with a more or less GENERIC
> kernel (took out scsi and ipv6) During booting, the system mounts three
> nfs partitions from the my local fileserver (which happens to be a
> debian 3.0 box, 2.4.18 kernel).
>
> The corresponding fstab entries are:
>
> gate.lindenstrasse:/home/silk/lan /home/silk/lan nfs rw,-r=1024 0 0
> gate.lindenstrasse:/var/www/public /home/silk/www nfs rw,-r=1024 0 0
> gate.lindenstrasse:/samba/public /home/silk/public nfs rw,-r=1024 0 0
>
> Since I am not running nis, I synchronized the uid's for my working
> account on both machines manually and changed ownership to the
> directories in question accordingly.
>

Are you aware that root and any other uid=0 permissions do not, by default,
take effect accross an nfs mount.

The root permission transfer can however be enabled in /etc/exports
Take a look at exports(5)

Malcolm Kay