Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!killer!pollux!jgd From: jgd@pollux.UUCP (Dr. James George Dunham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: rsh and nfs home directory Message-ID: <10730@pollux.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 88 02:05:04 GMT Reply-To: jgd@pollux.UUCP (Dr. James George Dunham) Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275 Lines: 16 We are running 4.3 + NFS from Mt. Xinu on some 750's and uVAX-II. I recently split up the /usr2 (user) file system across machines and then used NFS to network then together as a single /usr2 directory. I have discovered a problem when a regular user attempts to do a remote command to a machine where his home (login) directory is on an NFS mounted directory, i.e., another machine physically has his files. The command fails with "permission denied". Further background is that root does not have superuser priviliges on NFS mounted file systems. The machines are set to run with each other being an equivalent host. The problem appear with and without yellow pages running. Further, the user has a .rhosts file with the other machine given permission to execute remote commands. I admit I have not spent much time digging into the problem, but perhaps someone else has observed the problem and can provide a solution. Thanks for any help. -Jim Dunham pollux!jgd