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- From: tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold)
- Subject: Re: Root Priviledges Between Workstation and Server?
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:05:52 GMT
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- derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa) writes:
-
- $ I need to have root run a process on a workstation and
- $ have the results written to a log file on a server on
- $ the network. Whenever I do this I get a "permission
- $ denied".
-
- $ The path to the log file in question is writable by
- $ owner only (root). The /.rhosts file on both the workstation
- $ and server include both the name of the workstation
- $ and the server. Shouldn't this allow root priviledges
- $ between these computers?
-
- $ If not, how else might I accomplish this?
-
- The .rhosts file is used for remote execution which is a different
- facility than NFS. NFS is daemons talking to each other as root and do
- not check permission to do remote execution. As others have indicated,
- you should either export the filesystem granting root privileges to the
- client or open the file permissions on the server before running the
- program on the client.
- --
- Tom Reingold
- AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
- tommy@boole.att.com or att!boole!tommy
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