nfs permissions

[Omar Alvi_1]

Hi,

nfs files whose owner doesnâ t exist on the remote system cannot be accessed by the Oracle application. This results in the application not being able to start.

Does the remote user have to be on both systems for the permissions and ownership to be retained?

If so, which is required to be the same, the username or user ID?

Regards,

-A

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The user doesn't have to exist, but the oracle user needs to be able to acces the files, so if the user/group don't exist that automatically means oracle is not the user and cannot be in the group, so the files have to be world-accessible...

[T G Manikandan]

One way is

It should be world accessible.

chmod 777

[Suresh Patoria]

Hi,
whichever remote NFS files u trying to access

whoever the owner of that files

same owner should be the local then it able to access

check out the remote user UID also

same thing create at ur local system

then u try to access


Thanx

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Omar,
As suggested world accessible can be done. But as the basic goes, when you are trying to share something and result in violating the basic security features of unix.

Better to have the user with the same userid in the NFS server also. Internally the userid will be matched and not the name. So you can have different names with the same user id. But that doesnt seem to be logical also.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Kevin Wright]

Create the user on both client and server with the same uid/gid.

[Steven E. Protter]

I agree with the last post.

The most common issue in such cases is the UID is not the same on both machines in /etc/passwd

The OS really uses numbers, not names.

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