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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!tmc!shawn
- From: shawn@monitor.com
- Subject: FIX: Losing Preferences
- Message-ID: <BuKzCG.4KE@monitor.com>
- Sender: shawn@monitor.com (Shawn Broderick)
- Reply-To: shawn@monitor.com
- Organization: Monitor Company / IE
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:29:03 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- Sorry if this is a rehash for some of you.
-
- A number of folks have had problems with folks on their network losing their
- Preference settings (or rather, not having them stay changed) when they log
- out and back in.
-
- This generally will happen when a user's home directory is on an network NFS
- mounted drive. The problem is that Preferences runs SUID root and expects
- root access to the device it is writing to.
-
- The fix is to export the server volume with root access to the machines that
- need it, or you can export it to the world with root access (obvious security
- issues here). In your /etc/exports file:
- /Users -root=machine1:machine2:machine3 etc.......
- to allow certain machines root access to /User and:
- /Users -anon=0
- to allow the world root access to /User.
-
- Am I to understand that 3.0 does not SUID to store preferences?
-
- Shawn Broderick
- Monitor Company / Information Engineering
- Director, BCS NeXT
- shawn@monitor.com
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- Shawn Broderick
- Monitor Company / Information Engineering
- Director, BCS NeXT
- shawn@monitor.com
-