NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

[Jatin K]

On Monday 01 August 2011 02:00 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> Jatin K wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> what should be the permission of NFS shared directory on RHEL6 ???
>>
>> I've shared a directory on rhel 6  ...following are the configuration done
>>
>> created a directory /office
>>
>> --/etc/exports----
>> /office *.officebox.local(rw,sync)
>>
>>
>>
>> ---ls -ld /office
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Aug  1 13:44 /office
>>
>>
>> problem :-  all the clients in officebox.local can mount the nfs shared
>> directory on localsystem  but it always mounted as read-only  ...even
>> though /etc/exports configured with read and write
>>
>> I'm able to solve this problem by changing permission and set it to 777
>> ..... but this is not desirable
>>
>> is it compulsory to set permission to 777  ... what is the batter
>> solution ?????
> Probably better is set permission to (2)770 (or (2)771) and change
> directory group to group of accessing users.
> You can consider to use ACL too.
>
> Franta Hanzlik
>

if I change the ownership of the directory to nfsnobody  ...... is it 
harmful


chwon nfsnobody:nfsnobody /office

it gives me the rwx permission of the client side


changing ownership to nfsnobody is ok as per the security concern ???

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