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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:24:02
Message-Id: 20130127182307.58236760@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission by Ralph Seichter
1 On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:54:52 +0100
2 Ralph Seichter <gentoo-user@××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > On 27.01.13 00:04, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >
6 > > What sort of client is this, and what umask is it using?
7 >
8 > The client is an Edision Argus Pingulux Plus satellite receiver.
9 >
10 > [root@stlinux]#uname -a
11 > Linux stlinux 2.6.32.42_stm24_V4.1-SAT7111_7111-STSDK #56 PREEMPT Tue
12 > Oct 16 16:17:14 CST 2012 sh4 GNU/Linux
13 >
14 > > That's regular shell umask, not some fancy thing related to fs
15 > > mounts.
16 >
17 > [root@stlinux]#umask
18 > 0022
19 >
20 > This umask looks OK to me.
21 >
22 > -Ralph
23 >
24
25 You config certainly looks right to me, and I don't know of any config
26 that makes it work differently.
27
28 I've always found default permissions on NFS shares to be a difficult
29 thing to implement. One can do it with POSIX file attributes on the
30 server but I always found that cumbersome and very susceptible to being
31 forgotten about
32
33 I usually end up running chmod in a cron on the server :-)
34
35 --
36 Alan McKinnon
37 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Subdirectories on NFS server missing 'executable' permission Ralph Seichter <gentoo-user@××××××××.de>