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From: dzubera@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Zube)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: exporting a hierarchy with root access on HP-UX ??
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Date: 22 May 91 19:33:35 GMT
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Being a poor grad student, I accepted a system manager's assistant position
for the summer.  I have struggled with the following problem, and hope
someone has already solved it.

In order to facilitate moving many many file systems, we would like for root
to have write access to any (nfs) mounted partitions.  The process for 
achieving this is easy under Sun-OS, but it is not even mentioned in the 
HP manuals.  We have tried using the same procedure as in Sun-Os (why? the 
HP-UX manuals mention that their version was written by sun), which entailed
adding an option to /etc/exports such as -root=user, but it didn't work.
We also tried adding the machines to the hosts.equiv file, but again, no luck.

  
If anyone has a complete or partial answer to this problem, or even
a pointer to a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
John

John Dzubera
grad student, novice system person

dzubera@lamar.colostate.edu
dzubera@handel.cs.colostate.edu