From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 22:47:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA28670 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:47:09 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA28584 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 22:46:25 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA03104; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:40:55 GMT Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:40:52 +0000 () From: Brian Tao To: "House of Debuggin'" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mountd strangeness In-Reply-To: <199503271427.JAA00666@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, House of Debuggin' wrote: > > They say this Brian Tao person was kidding when he wrote: > > > > When you mounted the filesystems, did you have to login as root to > > do it, or were you able to su from your non-superuser account? For > > some reason, I have to login as root to do any NFS-related operations. > > Neither 'su' nor 'su -' are good enough. > > Er... sorry to disapoint you, but everything works find for me either > way. Well, except for the fact that mountd doesn't work the way I want it > to. :) The funny thing is, it *used* to work on virgo (my other FreeBSD box) when it was running the 950210 snapshot. It never did work on aries (my primary machine). Now that both are up to 950322, I must login as root on both systems to mount or unmount NFS filesystems. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org