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Old 02-25-2007, 06:06 PM   #1
whammack
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NFS Client Permissions


I am running Ubunutu 6.06 LTS. It has two users: superuser and bill -- bill has fewer permissions in general than superuser, which is the user created when installing ubuntu. (Recall that Ubuntu creates, when installing, a first user who is automatically given membership in the exclusive admin group. This user will then have almost as many privileges as root, including the ability to change the root password. It is usually a good idea to make another users with fewer privilages for normal use. Thus, user "bill.")

THE ISSUE: Bill owns the following directory: /home/bill/homefiles. Then this is mounted to the files on another server by nfs via an ssh tunnel. The problem: When the server share is mounted to /home/bill/homefiles the owner of all the files becomes superuser. Why is this? For several years now I've used this same mounting on a Debian Sage installation and never had this permissions issue. What permissions should I be looking at? The nfs server has the correct ones -- since it works currently on another client. This would lead me to believe it was client side. It would seem that Ubuntu has something set up slightly differently. Any suggestions for where to look?
 
  


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