NFS & Permission in VMS

[Jorge Cocomess]

Greetings,

Our environment have OpenVMS and Linux servers. Recently, our business required the ability to write to a common share folder from the Linux server to the VMS server.

I setup the NFS share-point on the VMS server and mounted on the Linux server. So, the VMS server hosting the mount-point. So far, everything is working great and the speed is quite good. The only trouble I'm having that I can't find answers for, and that is security.

When a file being created on the Linux side onto the mount-point, it truncated the "WORLD" permission, therefore, my VMS process not able to delete the file once it's done with it. I even went as far as settng the "ACL" security parameters at the folder root level to be wide open (ex: WORLD:RWED).

Anyone have any ideas on how or where I should look for?

Please help!

Jorge.

[Arch_Muthiah · Accepted solution]

Jorge,

There is a thread discusses the similar issue, but I found no solution out of it, just have look at it.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=980714&admit=-682735245+1152809879681+28353475

Archunan

[Arch_Muthiah]

Jorge,

I found one more thread on " Tips for setting up NFS server on OpenVMS to be accessed by a Linux Box"

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=984439

Just have a look at it.


Archunan

[Steven Schweda]

It's just possible that it would help to
know a few things like, for example:

How is the file system exported?

How is it mounted?

On a problem file, what are the permissions
and ownership as seen from the local system?

What are the permissions and ownership as
seen from the remote system?

What's the umask on the Linux side?

Is the problem the same for any file created
by the Linux system, or is it
application-specific?

What happens if the same scheme is used to
create a local file on the Linux system?