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From: vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NFS Super users?
Message-ID: <1631@zen.co.uk>
Date: 1 Jul 89 14:30:34 GMT
References: <240038@grlab.UUCP> <239@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
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In article <239@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
>In article <240038@grlab.UUCP> scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writes:
>>Is it possible to disable the Super-user-maps-to-uid-65534(aka -2) behavior?
>
>then patch the kernel variable called "nobody". NFS servers map root NFS
>requests to this user-id. Normally it is set to -2 (explaining the
>behaviour you describe above). Setting it to 0 will grant clients super
>user access to the server.

This is only because HP runs an old version of NFS. In the newer versions, the
exports file describes how to map the root id when access is made to files on
that file system from specific machines.

>>I want a nice easy way to specify some remote directories when doing
>>system backups and such...
>
>The way to do that is not to use NFS for backups! Use rdump to backup
>files to a remote tape drive or other backup device.

HP don't support rdump!

>		Jim

			vic
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