Jukka Marin said:
> 
> Here, /home2 is an NFS mounted partition:
> 
> jmarin@pyy /home2 %(50)ls -l hum
> -rw-r--r--  1 4  wheel  33 May  7 09:28 hum
> 
> jmarin@pyy /home2 %(51)cat hum
> cat: hum: Permission denied
> 
> jmarin@pyy /home2 %(52)ls -l hum
> -rw-r-xr-x  1 4  wheel  33 May  7 09:28 hum
> 
> jmarin@pyy /home2 %(53)cat hum
> Tue May  7 09:28:45 EET DST 1996
> 
> Is this a feature?  Do I have to set the execute bit for all files?
> 
> I also noticed that after I read a file once as root, I can then read it
> as any user with no problems (at least as long as it stays in some NFS
> cache (or something)).
> 
> Help! :)
> 

I've seen this problem too. A newer -cuurent kernel solved the problem.

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