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From: mtsu@blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Nfs -- root privs
Message-ID: <717@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 89 07:18:02 GMT
References: <695@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11494@swan.ulowell.edu>
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In article <11494@swan.ulowell.edu> arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu writes:
>> What I want to do is to be able to sit
>> as root on caesar, and modify files on the other machines.  This used to
>Check /etc/exports on the server.  Chances are you're missing '-r=0'.
>The -r option sets the uid mapping for that filesystem.  The default
>is -2.
>Andy Rosen           | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I

Well, it was definitely a case of RTFM, except I was reading 2.0 (I think) 
hardcopy, and not my nice new unformatted up-to-date 2.3 manuals.  THANX
FOR ALL THE RESPONSES.
icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu