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Operating Systems Solaris file permissions changed to nobody4 Post 302213480 by skewbie on Thursday 10th of July 2008 07:53:28 AM
Old 07-10-2008
file permissions changed to nobody4

Hi there

We have had a weird problem arise recently whereby a file owned by cjo:cjogroup suddenly had it's permissions changed to nobody4:nogroup. The file is mounted off a NetApp Filer volume with the NFS permissions set to Read-Write Access (All Hosts) but no Root Access.

When we tried to change the permissions back on the file as root we could not due to the no Root Access as defined above. We modified these permissions and were successfully able to change them back to the correct settings.

However, my questions are:

1. How could the permisssions change on a file on a filer mount when no hosts have root permissions?
2. Can we successfully remove the nobody4 user from the system? I see that this is the SunOS 4.x NFS Anonymous Access User.

We are running a Solaris 10 x86 server on Sun hardware.

Thanks

Steve.
 

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MOUNT_EXFAT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    MOUNT_EXFAT(8)

NAME
mount_exfat -- mount an ExFAT file system SYNOPSIS
mount_exfat [-o options] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] device directory DESCRIPTION
The mount_exfat command mounts the ExFAT filesystem from the device device onto the directory given by directory. This command is normally invoked by diskarbitrationd(8) as the result of detecting a device with a file system recognized as ExFAT. It can also be invoked indirectly by executing the mount(8) command with the -t exfat option. The options are as follows: -o options Use the specified mount options, as described in mount(8). -u uid Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid. The default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file system is being mounted. -g gid Set the group of the files in the file system to gid. The default group is the group of the directory on which the file system is being mounted. -m mask Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file system. (For example, a mask of 755 specifies that, by default, the owner should have read, write, and execute permissions for files, but others should only have read and execute permissions. See chmod(1) for more information about octal file modes.) Only the nine low-order bits of mask are used. The default mask is taken from the directory on which the file system is being mounted. If none of the -u, -g, or -m options are given, the volume will be mounted with the MNT_UNKNOWNPERMISSIONS flag (equivalent to the -o noowners option). If the device is internal and not removable, the volume will be mounted with the MNT_ASYNC flag (equivalent to the -o async option) by default. That default can be overridden with the -o noasync option. When mounted with the -o noasync option, metadata updates are synced to disk frequently (by default, 50ms after the system call that changed the metadata returns to its caller). SEE ALSO
fsck_exfat(8), exfat.util(8), mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8) HISTORY
The mount_exfat utility first appeared in Mac OS X 10.6.3. Darwin January 19, 2010 Darwin
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