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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2442" class="">We are accessing <code class="">NFS mounts</code> across three hosts. The issue for us is that when we change the ownership of a directory on <code class="">NFS mount</code> on the server, the ownership changes are not taking place on the client. It is getting changed to <code class="">nobody</code>
on the client. The issue can be seen for a particular user , for other
users it is working fine. The user in question is the following user. </div>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2426" class=""><code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2425" class="">$ id contentmanager
uid=506(contentmanager) gid=500(admin) groups=500(admin)
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2424" class=""><code class="">UID</code> is same on both client and server machines. </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2406" class="">Also, if we change the ownership to <code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2470" class="">contentmanager</code> manually on the client, it is getting changed to <code class="">nobody</code> user. But if changed to some other user, it works fine. </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2443" class="">Please find /etc/exports for the particular directory on the server. </div>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2445" class=""><code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2444" class="">/shareddata/share *(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2446" class="">On the client machine, it is mounted as follows</div>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2448" class=""><code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2447" class="">lnxq-004:/shareddata/share /data/share nfs vers=3,rw 0 0
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2449" class="">Example on the Server:</div>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2450" class=""><code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2451" class="">$ sudo chown contentmanager test
$ ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 contentmanager admin 0 Aug 20 23:08 test
$ ls -ln test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 506 500 0 Aug 20 23:08 test<br> </code></pre>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2452" class="">Example on the Client:</div>
<pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2469" class=""><code id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2476" class="">$ ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody admin 0 Aug 20 23:08 test
$ ls -ln test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 99 500 0 Aug 20 23:08 test
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440481553461_2477" class="">This is the issue where the ownership is not getting changed to <code class="">contentmanager</code></div>
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