NFS shared directory permission (rhel6)

[Frantisek Hanzlik]

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