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- From: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen)
- Subject: Re: ultrix 4.2: chgrp/chown problems on an NFS client
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.214333.10974@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Sender: scowen@wfpc3 (Paul A. Scowen)
- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
- References: <1992Dec16.160418.1@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:43:33 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Dec16.160418.1@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca>, rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca writes:
- |> system: ultrix 4.2A. server is a ds5000/240, clients are ds5000/20.
- |>
- |> we've discovered what appears to be an anomaly with the use of chgrp
- |> and/or chown to change the group on a file. this appears to work fine on
- |> a locally-attached disk, but not an NFS client. an example will show
- |> what i mean:
- [stuff deleted]
- |> now try the exact same thing on an NFS client:
- |>
- |> elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- |> -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
- |> elrod> /etc/chown rick.system junk.txt
- |> chown: can't change ownership of junk.txt: Not owner
- |>
- |> which isn't true, BUT:
- |>
- |> elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- |> -rwx------ 1 rick system 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
- |>
- |> it changes it anyway. but if i wait for a minute or two, it puts it
- |> back the way it was, with no intervention from me:
- |>
- |> elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- |> -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
- |>
- |>
- |> is this something known? is there an easy fix?
-
- Isn't this due to the two userid's being different on the two machines - and I
- don't mean the login names but the numerical id's. Since then the user rick
- is not the same user on both machines, the local one and the host that has the
- NFS disk physically mounted. Or am I missing the point?
-
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