Subject: Re: NFS perms prob? "pwd: Permission denied"
To: None <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>
From: Bruce Walker <bmw@visgen.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/19/1997 17:31:18
David Bronder writes:
>
> Bruce Walker said:
> > are NFS-mounted onto a NetBSD 1.2 box from a server. If a user
> > who is *not* a member of group wheel logs in, he can't pwd(1).
>
> Unmount the filesystem and check the permissions on the mount point
> while the fs is unmounted. My guess is it's root.wheel, mode 751
> or something similar. Make sure that world has r-x for the mount
> point, then remount and give it a try.
Nailed it! Thank you! Of three similar mounts on the machine,
only /home was wrong; it was 750. And, to make matters worse,
I faithfully duplicated that on another machine. Bleah.
Works bee-you-tee-full now.
-bmw