Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:28:45 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions on NFS mounted homedir Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970922132805.15023A-100000@ds9> In-Reply-To: <199709222025.PAA23960@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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David - Thanks very much for the pointer, that fixed it. Pretty strange, though :) Thanks, David Lowe On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, David Kelly wrote: > David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> writes: > > > > On a recently built FreeBSD 2.2.2 machine, I'm getting a very strange > > error from login shells for all users: > > > > csh: Permission denied > > csh: Trying to start from "/Users/dlowe" > > > > This seems to happen regardless of which shell they are using. This > > started happening when we cut the home directories over to an NFS mounted > > disk. I dug through some shell source code, and found the relevant > > section of code. It looks like the shell is getting an error from the > > getwd() call. But why? > > > > Home is /Users/dlowe - > > # grep ^dlowe /etc/passwd > > dlowe:*:12028:10:David Lowe:/Users/dlowe:/bin/csh > > > > I have r-x access to the directory, and each interim directory - > > # ls -ald / > > drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Sep 18 12:14 / > > # ls -ald /Users > > drwxr-xr-x 105 root daemon 2048 Aug 29 15:16 /Users > > Stop right here. What are the permissions on /Users *before* you mount > another fs on top of it? I've found it matters on SGI systems. 0755 > is good, 0700 is not. Forgot if 0711 worked. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) > ====================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. >
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