On 24/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have nfs shared a directory on one machine and used "cp -a" to copy the directory to another machine...(to produce an identicle file server) What puzzles me is that although i was logged on as root... i was still unable to copy some files.. it saying that i was not permitted to copy due to lack of permissions. I thought that as root i would be able to copy everything. Is there any way around this as it is time consuming to change the permissions on every file/directory that it has a problem with.
by default NFS exports have the the `root_squash' option set, this means that root on the client is treated as the nobody user, which essentially means that root can only access world readable files.
if all the clients who can mount the share are secure and trusted, add no_root_squash to the export options of /etc/exports on the server. like so:
/home pluto(no_root_squash) you can add any other options there too, comma separated. Ethan
