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From: david@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rsh and nfs home directory
Message-ID: <5983@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 88 15:47:43 GMT
References: <10730@pollux.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@pyr.gatech.edu (David Brown)
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, Ga.
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In article <10730@pollux.UUCP> jgd@pollux.UUCP (Dr. James George Dunham) writes:
>
>	We are running 4.3 + NFS from Mt. Xinu on some 750's and uVAX-II.
>...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.

>				-Jim Dunham
>				 pollux!jgd

I think you need to change the kernel variable 'nobody' in order to allow
superuser access over the network.  There are several ways to do this, so I
won't delve into them here.  Look at the Sun manuals ("System Administration",
under "Sun Network Services").  Hope this helps.

                -David Brown


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