[MLUG] NFS all_squash

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm in the process of setting up and NFS server.  Simple enough, except 
> the all_squash isn't working. :-(
[...]
> # ls -l
> -rw-rw-r--    1 10028 5011    497 2008-12-29 17:00 mirror.txt
> -rw-rw-r--    1 10001 5011    401 2008-02-08 10:50 mirror.txt.bak

You misunderstand all_squash: it does not affect the uid/gid info sent
over from the server.  It only affects the uid/gid info sent from the
client to the server (i.e. the server decides to override the uid/gid
data sent by the client).


        Stefan