Re: [Hampshire] NFS group permissions

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] NFS group permissions

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5860d100.hantslug.org.uk.20822': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sat Jan 6 14:07:33 2007 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 019AD0D8166C4BF0
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:34, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:14:22PM +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> > I have three boxes, two Etch clients and one Sarge Server. All are
> > running the stock NFS userspace server. The users have the same uid
> > and gid on all three boxes.
> >
> > I'm having problems where users can only edit files if they own
> > them, even though the files are rw for the group that the user is a
> > member of. If the user edits the file directly on the server,
> > everything is okay, when they try to edit the file via NFS they get
> > a permission denied problem on the console.
> >
> > They can happily edit a file via NFS if they own it. I'm sure this
> > use to work perfectly, but I'm not 100% sure.
> >
> > What and where should I be looking to try and fix this?
>
>    It sounds like the group memberships are different on the different
> machines. For each user, check that "id <uid>" produces the same
> output on both the server and the client machine. If they're
> different, make them the same. :)

>


I thought of that, but uid and gid of the two users are identical on all three
machines. Both users are also members of the same secondary group to which
the file belongs, which also has the same gid on all three machines.


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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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