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- From: mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic)
- Subject: Re: Problem with Netgroups
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.175456.284@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
- Sender: mario@wdc (Mario Nigrovic)
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- Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
- References: <1992Aug15.232833.3688@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Aug18.122640.6360@informatik.uni-ulm.de> <14116@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:54:56 GMT
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- In article <14116@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- |> >IMHO, exportfs should be rewritten to allow netgroups also be specified
- |> >in root and rw.
- |>
- |> The way "-root" and "-rw" currently work is that a list of IP addresses
- |> is shoved down into the kernel.
- |>
- |> If netgroups could be used in "-root" and "-rw", you'd probably have to
- |> arrange, somehow, that file systems using a netgroup in "-root" or "-rw"
- |> be re-exported whenever the netgroup's list of members changes.
-
- Yes, but how often are netgroups changed? Seems silly to make
- exportfs -root= so difficult to manage for such an infrequent
- occurrence!
-
- Mario
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