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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:02:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net>
To:        Ricardo Kleemann <ricardo@americasnet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weird error with NFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.91.961116210055.77190A-100000@future.dsc.dalsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9611161631.B573-0100000@katric1>

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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

> I have a file system mounted over NFS (/home directory).
> Anyway, if I'm a user I can go into my home directory and make changes.
> However, AS ROOT I keep getting "Permission Denied"! A check on permissions
> reports nothing out of the ordinary. 

This is a security feature to reduce the chance of someone on another box
doing bad things to your NFS server.  There are ways to get around it, but do
you really want to?

-Richard



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