Package: nfs-kernel-server
Version: 1.2.2
Architecture: amd64

This issue is related to nfs-utils 1.2.2 against amd64 (x86_64) architecture.* This test works against the x86 (32 bit) architecture.

When using nfs-kernel-server on amd64, files cannot be written even though the group permission is set correctly.* This looks like a group permission issue.


Test setup are two servers running Lenny with the nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server version 1.2.2 from backport.

Server 1 (nfs_client)
---------------------
# dpkg -l nfs-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name***************************************** Version************************************** Description

+++-=============================================-=============================================-================================================== ================================================== ======
ii* nfs-common*********************************** 1:1.2.2-1~bpo50+1**************************** NFS support files common to client and server


Server 2 (nfs_server)
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# dpkg -l nfs-kernel-server nfs-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name***************************************** Version************************************** Description
+++-=============================================-=============================================-================================================== ================================================== ======

ii* nfs-common*********************************** 1:1.2.2-1~bpo50+1**************************** NFS support files common to client and server
ii* nfs-kernel-server**************************** 1:1.2.2-1~bpo50+1**************************** support for NFS kernel server


/etc/exportfs from nfs_server:
/data** *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

The test from nfs_client:

root@nfs_client# mount -t nfs -o vers=3 nfs_server:/data /mnt
root@nfs_client# mount | grep mnt

nfs_server:/data on /mnt type nfs (rw,vers=3,addr=<hidden>)
root@nfs_client# mkdir /mnt/adm
root@nfs_client# chgrp adm /mnt/adm
root@nfs_client# chmod g+w /mnt/adm
root@nfs_client# ls -ld /mnt/adm
drwxrwxr-x 2 root adm 4096 2010-06-08 11:23 /mnt/adm

root@nfs_client# groups user
user
root@nfs_client# adduser user adm
Adding user `user' to group `adm' ...
Adding user user to group adm
Done.
root@nfs_client# groups user
user adm
root@nfs_client# su - user

user@nfs_client$ ls -ld /mnt/adm
drwxrwxr-x 2 root adm 4096 2010-06-08 11:23 /mnt/adm
user@nfs_client$ cd /mnt/adm
user@nfs_client:/mnt/adm$ ls -ald .
drwxrwxr-x 2 root adm 4096 2010-06-08 11:23 .
user@nfs_client:/mnt/adm$ touch a

touch: cannot touch `a': Permission denied
user@nfs_client:/mnt/adm$ df -kh .
Filesystem*********** Size* Used Avail Use% Mounted on
nfs_server:/data
********************* 7.5G* 667M* 6.5G* 10% /mnt


This was also tested against the Squeeze distribution with the same result.* Downgrading nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common on nfs_server to 1.1.2 works.