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From: ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell)
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Subject: magic limits on -root= option in /etc/exports
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 24 Jul 89 19:44:43 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 84, message 11 of 13

This applies to SunOS 4.0.3

I just found out that there's a magic limit of 10 hosts in the "root="
option in /etc/exports (this lists the hosts to which root access is
granted). According to the man page for exports(5), you have to list the
host names (you can't use netgroups, for instance).

It's bad enough that one has to list all the hosts, but 10 is an arbitrary
(and too small) limit. How do sites with lots of Suns deal with this? Is
there a workaround?

Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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