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- From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NFS exporting hassles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.122721.26236@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway
- References: <flint.726378710@marsh> <flint.726725306@marsh>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:27:21 GMT
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- In article <flint.726725306@marsh> flint@cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) writes:
- >G'day folks. Recently, I posted the following query:
- >
- >>We've got a lab full of DECstation 5000's running Ultrix 4.2A (which we
- >>can't upgrade as they have software loaded which is incompatible with
- >>later versions of the OS).
- >>
- >>What I'm trying to do is export several file systems to lots of machines
- >>but grant root access to only a select group. The exports file doesn't
- >>seem to allow this, although I've tried everything which seems to make
- >>sense (and even a couple of things which don't).
- >>
- >>So, can anybody help me out on this one? I'd greatly appreciate any
- >>suggestions.
- >
- >So far, I've only had responses from Kevin Long (who provided general advice
- >on NFS exports/mounting) and Mike Iglesias who basically said "it can't be
- >done". Thanks guys.
- >
- >As I've had no comments to the contrary, I must admit defeat (although I'm
- >not happy about it). 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 won't help me as we're still bound to
- >4.2A by other software we're running but I'd be interested to find out.
- >
- >--
- > Daniel Baldoni
- >
- >--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------
- >Phone: +61-9-351-7667 | School of Computing,
- >InterNet: flint@cs.curtin.edu.au | Curtin University of Technology,
- >--------------------------------------------+ GPO Box U1987, Perth,
- >#include <std/disclaimer.h> | Western Australia, 6001
- >--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------
- >"Depression is not a state of mind ... it's the state of Victoria!"
- > - A very one-eyed Eagles' fan (me)
-
- I think you may be able to solve that with differing exports, like this:
-
- Let us asssume the disk /u1:
-
- /u1 m1 m2 m3 m4
- /u1/content -r=0 m5 m6
-
- Now, /u1 is exported read/write to m1, m2, m3 and m4.
-
- /u1/content is exported with root privs to m5 and m6.
-
- If you organize /u1 so that all files and directories reside in the
- /u1/contents directory, you should be home free... I do this to /usr/man
- to make the manual pages shareable and to make the storing if expanded
- man pages is /usr/man/catx directories work.
-
- -- tore
- --
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tore Haraldsen, Statens Datasentral A/S - SDS, Norway
- email: toreh@bootes.sds.no
-