NFS -- root can't delete files on mounted patition.

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:15:17PM -0400, Robert Jameson wrote:
> on sc02 I can mount /home just fine and see all directorys etc. 
> But here is the problem I can't delete any files or modify files as the
> root user on the mounted /home - I can only make changes in directorys
> of users when i su to that user example:

See 'rootsquash' in the exports(5) man page:

       Very often, it is not desirable that the root user on a client  machine
       is also treated as root when accessing files on the NFS server. To this
       end, uid 0 is normally mapped to a different id: the  so-called	anony
       mous or nobody uid. This mode of operation (called root squashing) is
       the default, and can be turned off with no_root_squash.

I'd guess that that's what's happening to you.

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