[NBLUG/talk] Time to RTFM, but which FM? -- Mounting home directories via nfs

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:44:43AM -0700, Doug Palmer wrote:
> OK, I have /home exported from the big server and nfs mounted on the
> workstations. Seems to be OK for my user accounts, but local root gets
> permission denied for any action on the nfs mounted files. What did I
> miss?

in /etc/exports, add "no_root_squash" to the options for that entry, as in:

/home 10.2.3.4(rw,no_root_squash)

Of course, it's better not to do such evil things, but sometimes you have
to...
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