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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: What does an account need for the NFS Server to work?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.072559.861@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 07:25:59 -0700
- References: <2380F6CA14AUG92054312@TGV.COM>
- Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- In article <2380F6CA14AUG92054312@TGV.COM>, adelman@TGV.COM writes:
- >> I am attempting to set up the NFS server on our Vax to allow access
- >> from a group of suns. The sun users do not now have accounts on our
- >> vaxes, and we don't want them to have accounts. We do, however, have to
- >> create accounts so that the NFS server can map their UID/GID's to a
- >> valid UIC on our Vax. We are doing this by creating dummy accounts on
- >> the Vax, and I want to know what these dummy accounts need in order to
- >> allow the NFS server to work.
- >
- > Yes, it will. Even easier is that you can set it /FLAGS=DISUSER.
- > The only fields the NFS Server looks at are username, UIC, and
- > default privs.
-
- I consider this a bug Ken. An account that is flagged as DISUSER should be
- unusable.
-
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