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sed gets permission denied after enabling NFS auditing

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Native ONTAP NFS auditing
  • sed 4.2

Issue

  • sed -i gets permission denied after enabling auditing of NFS events on the SVM
[ntap@~ nfsaudit]$ echo "hello" > ntapfl ; sed -i 's/hello/OK/g' ntapfl
sed: couldn't close ./sedxbZ0aw: Permission denied
  • A TCPDUMP shows the storage denies sed write call with NFS4ERR_ACCESS
  • vserver security file-directory shows the user has enough permission on the volume
  • Other tools like vim or echo can write to the export volume 

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