Unable to change ownership of NFSv3 files and ownership shows as nfsnobody:nfsnobody
Issue
- Files that should be owned by
root:rootare showing asnfsnobody:nfsnobody - Trying to change ownership gives an error:
# chown -R root:root test
chown: changing ownership of `test': Operation not permitted
- This is using NFSv3, not v4
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- NFSv3
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