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Old 08-22-2007
how to make root user read all
I want to know what i can set up so that root user can read everything. On my Solaris systems root can read the following directory.

drwxrwx--- 408 icsrc icarc0 36864 Aug 21 07:24 dev
drwxrwsr-x 7 icsrc icarc0 4096 Aug 4 1998 test

But on my linux systems it gets:
[root@machine archives]# cd dev
bash: cd: dev: Permission denied

Is there a difference in the way linux mounts? Or is there an option to let root user mount this?

Frank
# 2  
Old 08-22-2007
What do the permissions look like now? ( ls -l )
# 3  
Old 08-22-2007
permissions
Just like the post above:

drwxrwx--- 408 icsrc icarc0 36864 Aug 21 07:24 dev

from solaris root gets in fine, from RH linux no go. I am trying to figure out the difference...

They are both talking to a NetApp FAS940 running OS 7.1
# 4  
Old 08-30-2007
Maybe I don't understand your question, but when you login to Solaris as root, are you in the / directory?
When you login as root in RH linux are you in /root or / or archives/?
# 5  
Old 08-30-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by frankkahle
They are both talking to a NetApp FAS940 running OS 7.1
Are you talking about an NFS volume?

Normally root is mapped to nobody in an NFS mount, as root should only be trusted on your local machine.
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