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Issue with old user permissions and NFS
I recently migrated my RN214 to expose NFS shares instead of SMB (no Windows PCs anymore). Turned out that there was a UID collision, user "volker" was auto-assigned UID 100 which I didn't care too m...
sudo does not exist and for su - I don't know the root password - if there is any.
Try logging in as root, and then using the NAS admin password.
StephenB : Thanks for the hint. Saved me a lot of hassle. I actually forgot that - after setting up SSH on the RN214 - I could either log in as admin or as root. root has all the necessary power for chown, so that made quick work of migrating UID 100 -> UID 1000 and adjusting the relevant files previously owned by UID 100.
I'll post a summary of my journey as a reply to my enquiry, just in case someone else wants to move from SMB/cifs to NFS on a Netgear NAS because modtime got unreliable rendering incfremental rsync backups essentially useless.
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