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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: nfs problem (UCX/VMS)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 14:28:59 MDT
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> then I do
> 
> su someotheruser (which has the uid/gid set to the owner/group identical
> to that on the VMS side - this technique is a convenient method to solve
> potential access rights problems)
> 
> and 'vi somefile'   there is no problem.
> 
> Even if the VMS/NFS product is not known to be one of the stablest
> at least on the FreeBSD side there shouldn't occur no core dump.

UID 0 mapping is failing on UCX -- unexpectedly.

The UID *must* map to some value, and that value MUST be valid for VMS.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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