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

Doug Palmer dpalmer at clovissolutions.com
Wed Aug 27 12:01:02 PDT 2003


OK, but if I want to avoid evil things, what is the normal way to do
this? 

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From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
Eric Eisenhart
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Time to RTFM, but which FM? -- Mounting home
directories via nfs


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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