From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2005@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs insecure_locks / Tru64 behaviour
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:00:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135375254.8555.49.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223214138.GA25727@lina.inka.de>
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 22:41 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:58:40PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, however True64 does not authenticate (properly), thats why you need the
> option if you want to do locking.
Sure, however his problem doesn't appear to be related to POSIX/fcntl
locking on the file itself, but rather to access checking on the parent
directory.
Cheers,
Trond
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 13:36 Ron Peterson
2005-12-22 23:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 1:39 ` Ron Peterson
2005-12-23 1:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 2:21 ` Ron Peterson
2005-12-23 2:32 ` Ron Peterson
2005-12-23 8:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 13:38 ` Ron Peterson
2005-12-23 13:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 14:39 ` Ron Peterson
2005-12-23 15:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 18:10 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-23 20:58 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-23 21:41 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-23 22:00 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
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