Re: nfs insecure_locks / Tru64 behaviour

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Fri Dec 23 2005 - 17:00:09 EST


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

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