6 Dec
2001
6 Dec
'01
9:55 p.m.
The problem seems to be related to the different way the root is defined beetween Linux and Unix : unix : root GID is 1 linux : root GID is 0
Actually, there exist flavors of UNIX that use 0 as the root group:
hostname$ uname -sr SunOS 5.8 hostname$ egrep '^root' /etc/group root::0:root
hostname2$ uname -sr HP-UX B.11.00 hostname2$ egrep '^root' /etc/group root::0:root
and the root UID is 0 on all flavors of UNIX I know of.
I suspect the more likely explanation is that the person who sent the original mail might not have had the filer exporting the file system in question with root permission to the client he was using, as somebody suggested in another mail message.