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From: anderson@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: NFS and root
Keywords: NFS restrictions root
Message-ID: <813@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:10:00 GMT
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Organization: NCR Systems Engineering - Orlando
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I have heard that some implementations of NFS do not allow root on the client
to access file on the server. I know about the root->nobody(uid=-2) translation
that goes on, but what I heard indicated that even this did not work.

Is this correct? Can somebody give me some more information on this, and if
there is a way to work around this limitation?

Any information would be greatly appreciated as I am in the middle on an NFS
implementation myself.

Thanks,

Stuart Anderson        anderson@Orlando.NCR.COM       NCR E&M Orlando, Florida
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