> I've mailed to debian-user twice earlier about this but I haven't > gotten any responses at all. > > If you know NFS, please try this an tell me if it works for you or > not. > > As it doesn't work for me and I think it wont work for you, I suppose > I'd file a bug report but I don't know if it's the nfsd, libc, atd or > some other package that isn't doing what it should. > > Appearently, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for > root from a program that is setuid root, that is on a nfs mounted > partition fails.
Does adding a no_root_squash (like below) change anything? /directory host(no_root_squash) Old versions of nfsd used to have "no_root_squash" by default, but more recent ones don't (that's a lot more secure). When root_squash is in effect, any request from uid=0 will be mapped to uid=nobody, and thus root isn't allowed to access the directory. > Here are some version that might be relevant (please ask if you need > another package's version number): > > base, 1.1.0-14 > libc5, 5.4.33-3 While you are at it, why not tell the version of nfsd (netstd)? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .