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From: merworth@cs.utexas.edu (Boyd Merworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: root-over-nfs under HP-UX 6.5
Keywords: root nfs
Message-ID: <7234@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:45:17 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I'm a system admin for approximately 60 HP 9000/300 series
workstations and have stumbled across a very peculiar problem
concerning root-over-nfs under HP-UX 6.5.  We have various
filesystems cross-mounted on all machines within our department.  This
includes VAXes, Sequents, Suns and the HPs.

First scenario.  When the HP filesystems are mounted
on the Sequents, root on the sequent has the ability to modify anything
on the NFS mounted filesystem.  Root-over-nfs is disabled on the HPs
(uid -2).

Second scenario.  My home directory resides on an HP.  I nfs mount
that filesystem onto my HP.  When I su to root, sometimes my
initialization files are read, sometime not read.  I use a special
prompt when running as root and reset my path.  These fail to get
set when the initialization files are not read.

Has anyone else experienced this on their HP workstations running the
HP-UX 6.5 OS?

-- 
Boyd Merworth
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Computer Sciences, TAY 2.124, Austin, Texas 78712
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