Solaris

Hi,

I am facing chgrp issue for a directory on a NAS mounted partation.

issue details :
user1 belongs to two groups grp1(primary) and grp2(secondary) not able to change directory group to secondary.


WORKING on /tmp

Code:

#mkdir /tmp/a
#ls -ld /tmp/a
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 grp1 117 Mar 24 06:19 /tmp/a

#chgrp grp2 /tmp/a
#ls -ld /tmp/a
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 grp2 117 Mar 24 06:19 /tmp/a

NOT Working on NFS share:

Code:

 
/home on nas2:/vx/home remote/read/write/setuid/devices/rstchown/xattr/dev=5140004 on Mon Mar 10 12:38:09 2014
 
#mkdir /home/user1/a 
#ls -ld /home/user1/a
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 grp2 117 Mar 24 06:19 /home/user1/a
 
#chgrp grp2 /home/user1/a
chgrp: /home/user1/a: Not owner

Solaris patch level

Code:

SunOS ossmaster 5.10 Generic_150401-05 i86pc i386 i86pc

Any clue on this issue.

Thanks
Naveen

Perhaps the automounter is handling /home?

Automount FS (from NAS) and file issues | Unix Linux Forums | Solaris

Does your NAS server have the passwd and group information? I.e. Does it know user1 grp2 etc.?

No NAS server does not know the user details. it is shared as r/w to everyone.

How does automounter affects the chgrp behaviour

Thanks
Naveen

Hmm, a NAS server should know the users and groups.
If not, I do not have practical experience what exactly happens. NFSv3 might pass the request to the server, and the server denies it.
Or do you use NFSv4? To find out, please run

Code:

nfsstat -m

The automounter does not matter here.

A NAS server may not know the groups a user belongs to. If _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is enforced by the NAS server, and it doesn't have access to the group data, it won't allow the change if it's not aware of the group(s) the file owner belongs to.

Although I had thought the group data was part of the NFS protocol? That may have changed in NFSv4, as I can see how trusting a client to supply gids could potentially be a security issue. I know my the first thing I do when I have any problem at all with NFSv4 is try NFSv3. Especially in a heterogeneous environment where various OS breeds and flavors are sharing NFS mounts. (Yeah, I avoid NFSv4 whenever possible.)

Being shared R/W to everyone shouldn't matter.

Yes, it worked thanks a lot.

Naveen