Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!gitpyr!david 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. Lines: 23 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Brown Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!david ARPA: david@pyr.gatech.edu