46689 – root needs write permissions in i.e. /home

Bug 46689 - root needs write permissions in i.e. /home

Summary: root needs write permissions in i.e. /home

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9849

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2004-04-03 07:21 UTC by E. Papegaaij
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description E. Papegaaij 2004-04-03 07:21:57 UTC

On my system the /home directory is mounted over nfs. The server does not use 'no_root_squash'. This means root will become nobody when accessing the nfs mount, so root can't write to /home. In my opinion this is quite normal with a nfs/nis setup. However it prevents sys-apps/baselayout from emerging properly. It bails out with the following error:
!!! Failed to chown/chmod/unlink in movefile()
!!! /home/.keep
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/.keep'


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove write permissions from /home
2. emerge baselayout
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-04-04 15:53:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***