On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 09:16 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 21:57 +0300, Amuraritei Andrei wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using autofs 5.0.7 on Fedora 20 and have a question regarding the > > mount point permissions. > > > > Specifically if autofs creates a direct or indirect mount point, for > > example /share (which holds the storage nfs exported folder), I can't > > seem to create another folder in /share. > > > > So mkdir /share/storage/dir1 works. But mkdir /share/dir1 doesn't. I > > guess it's by design(?) but couldn't find anything specific about this. > > > > Permissions are root:root 0755 for /share from filesystem. But when > > trying mkdir /share/dir (while it's mounted by autofs), and as root, I > > get permission denied. > > If there is a mount on top of /share, NFS for example, then permissions > are managed by NFS. If you can't create a directory in this case then > investigate possible NFS permissions problems. > > > > > Is this because of autofs needing to unmount /share when not used (with > > timeout) or is it just some bug ? > > Processes other than the one managing the automount point are not > supposed to be able to create directories within an autofs file system. > It's far to easy to break the kernel detection of directories that are > mount points by creating directories within an autofs file system. > Perhaps mountpoints could be detected differently but that isn't as > simple to do as it sounds. > > Ian > Hi Ian and thanks for your time, sorry my reply is so late. Now regarding the issue I get is that if I mount /share with autofs as: /etc/auto.master /share /etc/auto.share /etc/auto.share * -fstype=nfs4,rw,sec=krb5 nfs-server:/share/& It gets mounted, same permissions as on nfs-server: /share (0755) But if I mount it with a direct map of: /share -fstype=nfs4,rw,sec=krb5 nfs-server:/share in /etc/auto.direct and /etc/auto.master /- /etc/auto.direct Then it works as expected. I've also tried /share -fstype=bind /mnt/share, same results. This is with a freeipa server with kerberos / nfs and client, on Fedora 20. Any ideas on what to look at? Thanks. Andrei Amuraritei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html