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- From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
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- Subject: Re: Pls help: UID and GID consistency in NFS
- Keywords: NFS
- Message-ID: <thurlow.711907291@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:01:31 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul23.092816.8625@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
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- In <1992Jul23.092816.8625@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Wong Siu To) writes:
-
- >We've configured a HP720 (HP-UX 8.07) to mount filesystem on HP 845S
- >(HP-UX 8.00). I've made the uid and gid of the root entries the same on
- >both machines. When I mount the filesystem and create a new file on
- >this filesystem, I saw the owner is 65534 (nobody) but the group is
- >okay (the same as those file created by root on the 845S, say admin).
- >Then, on HP720 I chown the file to root, I've no access to the file
- >again.
-
- You need to look at the exportfs(8) man page on the server and figure
- out how to tell the server to permit unmodified root access from certain
- client machines (or all of you *really* trust your network). Right now,
- the server is trying to protect you from raids by a foreign root user,
- and you need to tell it which hosts you trust. The syntax on Suns and
- our machines is "-root=host_a,host_b,host_c" in the /etc/exports entry
- for the filesystem(s) in question. You should think carefully about
- how wide you want to open yourself up with this.
-
- Rob T
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