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- From: craig@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Craig Bryant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Pls help: UID and GID consistency in NFS
- Message-ID: <5570891@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:04:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.092816.8625@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
- Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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- In / comp.sys.hp / thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >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
- >--
- >Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
- >Heaven knows / No frontiers
- >And I've seen heaven in your eyes - Jimmy McCarthy
- >----------
-
- Rob T is exactly write except that exportfs does not exist on
- any released versions of HP-UX. The good news is that it is coming on
- HP-UX 9.0. And even better news is that this release is for all S[3478]00
- series.
-
- Craig Bryant
- Hewlett Packard
- Fort Collins, CO
- OSSD/UDL
- * Nobody from HP ever says anything official in comp.sys.hp including me *
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