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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: NFS and Network Driver Question
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:13 -0700
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Bob Wirka wrote:

> Ok, now I feel like I'm taking crazy pills...
>
> The embedded system boots up and mounts the root file system on my 
> host laptop. The 'rc.sysinit' startup script executes the command 
> 'mount -a' which should mount /proc, /dev/pts, and /dev/shm, as listed 
> in /etc/fstab. When executed, that command returns  "mount: only root 
> can do that".
>
> When I get to the bash prompt, 'whoami' reports that I am, indeed, 
> root. A 'mount -a' from the command prompt gives the same result; it 
> doesn't think I'm root for the mount command.
>
> I can chown a file owned by root to some other user, and I can create 
> a file or directory in a directory owned by root; so it doesn't always 
> think I'm not root.
>
Are you getting bit by the nfs uid mapping on the server. Is it mapping 
your local "root" to "nobody"
on the server?