Nice. Thanks! To further the confusion, the reason I was able to manipulate the files of unknown UID/GIDs was because I had mounted the sshfs via FUSE which by default lets you modify these files _even when you are not root_. But this is particular to fuse, and I see from your comment that in general linux UID/GIDs will be respected.
On Feb 25, 10:41 am, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > You will see that those files are listed with a UID/GID number instead of > the name. Root will have access to those files, but no one else unless you > have a local user or group mapped to those UID/GIDs. NFS works the same way. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:27, Fletcher Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am currently using sshfs to mount a remote filesystem. The files > > come up on my local box as having the same uid/gids as on the remote > > host. I do not have these uids/gids set up on my local system however. > > The thrust of my question is this: How does linux deal with uid/gids > > that are unknown to the system? Does it just ignore the permissions > > on those files and act as if you were root when dealing with them? > > > Thanks. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
