On 2019-12-10 07:21, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 09Dec2019 18:05, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> My NFS server works fine but not as a user other than root and I have not been able to change that. I suspect this is not an uncommon problem and hope that someone can tell me how to fix it? > > Are you saying that on a _client_ machine, users who are not root cannot browse the mounted NFS tree? > > If so, the first thing to come to mind is that traditionally, the underlying mount directory permissions govern access to the top of the mount. So: > > - umount the NFS share > - look at the perms on the mount point; are they root only? > - try: chmod 755 /the/mount/point > - remount the NFS share and retest > That isn't quite what he'd want. Example below. Note that this is a home system and I keep the UID and GID of all users the same on multiple system. Example: (The NFS client is meimei and I start with no file system mounted) [egreshko@meimei ~]$ whoami egreshko [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -ld /mnt drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jul 25 08:35 /mnt [egreshko@meimei ~]$ touch /mnt/x touch: cannot touch '/mnt/x': Permission denied [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo mount f31k:/home/egreshko /mnt [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -ld /mnt drwx------. 17 egreshko egreshko 4096 Dec 9 23:00 /mnt [egreshko@meimei ~]$ touch /mnt/x [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -l /mnt total 36 drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Desktop drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Documents drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Downloads drwxrwxr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 27 08:29 flash drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Music drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Pictures drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Public drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Templates drwxr-xr-x. 2 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 22 10:56 Videos -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 0 Dec 10 07:50 x Note that the mounted file system keeps the UID/GID as defined on server. So, one way of ensuring users can access mounted file systems as themselves is it make it such that the UID/GID's match on the client and server and that the permissions are such that it allows the needed access. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
