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From: boyle@altair.mcs.anl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NFS export and mounts querry
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Date: 18 Mar 90 17:39:20 GMT
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/* Written  8:32 pm  Mar 12, 1990 by rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu in altair:comp.sys.next */
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Folks,
 
Another thought. Some of our profs here want to have their OD's mounted, then
exported for all to use. Well, I tried the obvious:
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--Roger Jagoda
--Cornell University
--FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Have you (and the profs :-) considered that files on the optical are
"owned" by whoever mounts the optical?  That is, there is no file
protection (distinction among owners) of files on the OD, as I
understand it.  This has the plus that one can take his private OD to
another machine on which his login is different, and still use the
files; it has a number of minuses for having multiple-users' files on
an OD.  

Have you investigated what rwx permissions are needed to access these
NFSed OD files?

Jim Boyle