[CentOS] Chmod Explaination

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 22:30 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> 
> >> 	As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running?
> >>
> >> No, I don't have.
> >
> > Then I dunno why root didn't, as with selinux disabled root also
> > has implicit rights to all files/folders, but with selinux enabled
> > security context can be setup on a directory hierarchy to only
> > give implict rights to owners.
> 
> is user_dir on an NFS share?

By default root will have the least privileged access to NFS shares
(nobody.nogroup or nfsnobody.nfsnogroup) unless no_root_squash is
specified for the client machine in the server's /etc/exports.

Phil