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- From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NFS exporting hassles
- Message-ID: <9301110515.AA11018@TIS.COM>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 05:15:05 GMT
- References: <flint.726378710@marsh> <flint.726725306@marsh>
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- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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- flint@cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) writes:
- >>What I'm trying to do is export several file systems to lots of machines
- >>but grant root access to only a select group.
- >Considering the functionality provided by every other
- >version of UNIX I've seen (including SunOS, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, BSD4.[23]),
- >this is a ridiculous limitation. Just as a point of interest, has DEC fixed
- >this in later releases of the OS?
-
- It's an utterly absurd limitation. Especially when you consider
- that ULTRIX 3.5 used to let you have multiple entries in /etc/exports,
- and would attempt to perform matching. That functionality was removed
- in ULTRIX 4.0.
-
- Don't look for it to get fixed in a future version of ULTRIX.
- I know for a fact ('cuz I did it!) that the problem has had bug reports
- filed against it and the only answer that came back was "it works properly."
-
- I don't know what OSF/1 does. Perhaps they're not running a
- totally antiquated NFS release. I think DEC OSF/1 is running Sun's NFS
- software in the kernel instead of the U of Guelph stuff that OSF uses.
- I'm not sure what version of the Sun code is in DEC OSF/1 - perhaps
- someone from DEC would care to comment.
-
- mjr.
-