> Poking about in the knfsd code, I see that when the NLM SHARE request
> comes in, we ultimately end up calling nfsd_permission() to check
> read access on the file to be shared. However, this is checked with
> a UID of nobody. SHARE denies the lock. Thus, unless all files on
> the exported directory are world-readable, even a properly
> authenticated owner on the Netware system can't do anything with them.
The same is the case with normal locking from some non-Linux clients
(e.g. OSF1) -- the file must be world readable if it is to be lockable
by the user.
I tracked it to similar sounding code, and reported it, but nobody picked it up
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