[ale] Writing to NFS

[Dow Hurst]

Why would the group suid bit be on?

I would expect:

drwxr-xr-x

but not with suid bits set on a mount point.  Is there some special 
group that needs suid access?
Dow


David Corbin wrote:

>On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:24, Dow Hurst wrote:
>  
>
>>Your underlying mount point's permissions override the mount permissions
>>in IRIX.  I haven't tested this in Linux.  Umount the filesystem and
>>check to see if the mount point is writeable by root.
>>    
>>
>
>Here is the umounted mount point.
>
>drwxr-sr-x   69 dcorbin  dcorbin      4096 Nov 11 10:30 foobar/
>
>
>  
>
>>Dow
>>
>>David Corbin wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Can someone explain why the file system is read-only?  mount says it's
>>>not. /etc/exports has the rw option on it.
>>>
>>>$ mount | tail -1
>>>foobar:/home/dcorbin on /data/home/dcorbin/foobar type nfs
>>>(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.99.3,user=dcorbin)
>>>$ pwd
>>>/data/home/dcorbin/foobar
>>>$ echo >junk
>>>-bash: junk: Read-only file system
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>

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