Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au!mferrare From: mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: help with NFS and root Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 01:03:10 GMT References: Sender: news@ucs.adelaide.edu.au Distribution: comp Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes: >We recently upgraded to SunOS 4.1, and root activities on NFS-mounted >filesystems are no longer honoured (that is, if logged in as root, you >can't touch files owned by root.) I understand the security implications >of allowing root access across NFS, but I can't find the appropriate >incantation in the manuals; can someone tell me how to enable it? >Thanks, > -- Jamie If you put the following in you /etc/fstab. /exported/filesystem -root=allowedhost1:allowedhost2,access=allowedhost1,allowedhost2 -- _ Name : Mark Ferraretto \ \ Place : Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics || \ \ University of Adelaide ==========>==>==-- Aarnet: mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au