Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!metaware!adam
From: adam@metaware.metaware.com (At these prices, I can't NAME names)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Uid in sendmail and NFS
Message-ID: <221@metaware.metaware.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:29:02 GMT
References: <10261@ardent.UUCP>
Reply-To: adam@metaware.UUCP (At these prices, I can't NAME names)
Organization: MetaWare Incorporated, Santa Cruz
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In article <10261@ardent.UUCP> massey@ardent (Todd Massey) writes:
>
>Heres the problem:
>  Have a symbolic link via NFS to /usr/spool/mail.
>  Now when a machine running sendmail recieves a mail message and tries
>  to place the file in /usr/spool/mail with nfs mount links, it has a 
>  uid of nobody (-2), the reason behind this is that nfs does not allow

	On the machine that exports /usr/spool/mail edit the /etc/exports
file, add the option "anon=0" to the line that has /usr/spool/mail on it.
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