Re: nfs insecure_locks / Tru64 behaviour

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 19:10 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <20051223013933.GB22949@mtholyoke.edu> you wrote:
> > That's exactly the problem.  The first obvious solution doesn't work.
> > Your second solution does.  The directory must have the execute bit set
> > for other, or the the file cannot be edited, no matter who owns the
> > directory (unless the owner/group is nobody/nogroup).
> 
> Is it a edit problem or a directory-enter problem (i.e. can you do a "cd d"?).
> 
> Is it a general file access problem or only with vi (i.e. can do "echo bla >> file")
> 
> If it is a vi specific problem maybe the locking is the problem:
> 
> The insecure_locks on Linux server is  needed, cause Linux NFS Server will
> serve lock requests normally only from root users, and True64 requests from
> unpriveledged daemon user. This means fctnl locking cannot be done, and this
> might be a problem for vi.

Huh? No it doesn't. The Linux NLM server requires that the client
authenticate using AUTH_SYS (unless you use insecure_locks), but it
certainly doesn't require you to have root privileges. That would
violate POSIX locking rules.

Cheers,
  Trond