[Lvlug] NFS: Can read but not write files

[Randy Kramer]

On Monday 04 July 2005 11:41 pm, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> With the all_squash setting, the NFS mount process was being handled by
> UID 65534 on the server (when you turn on root_squash, this will happen
> again but only for requests made by UID 0.) UID 65534 is usually
> identified as user "nobody". The server process has whatever access rights
> are available to that user for the files it is trying to serve (probably
> just global read). (I missed this in your first post.)

Oh, after pressing send, the question (if it was a question) became more clear 
to me--yes, the only access that nobody has to these files is that defined by 
the permissions for "other".  (I guess you knew that, and it wasn't really a 
question.)

Randy Kramer