From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 12:54: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.idirect.com (icarus.idirect.com [207.136.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3577914DAD for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fehr@idirect.com) Received: from hometown.idirect.com (root@hometown.idirect.com [207.136.66.27]) by icarus.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20933; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:53:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (fehr@localhost) by hometown.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id PAA13660; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:18:01 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hometown.idirect.com: fehr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:18:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric D. Fehr" To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounting /home In-Reply-To: <199903021954.OAA02438@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Eric D. Fehr wrote, > > I am attempting to nfs mount the /home filesystem from a Network Appliance > > NFS server. > > > > Here is my problem: > > > > I can mount /home, and ssh into the box OK, but when I go to su to root, I > > just get the standard "Sorry" message, like it is not able to lookup the > > home directory for the root account. > > The 'Sorry' message is when you get the password wrong. Are you using > the right root password? Logged into the client machine, su will > require the password of root on the client and not the server. I have verified that I am using the correct password - if I reboot single-user, and replace /home with my pre-NFS copy of /home, everything works fine. > > /home/root is the home directory for > > the root account, and is a symlink to /root. > > But you still might have a problem here. Which /root are you talking > about? The one on server or client? If /home/root is a symlink to > /root, you will get the /root directory on the _client_ when you login > on the client machine. That is correct. This is the desired behaviour. > > Is their some quirk of su > > that does not allow home directories to be NFS mounted symlinks? (or > > symlinks from an NFS to local file system?) > > "NFS mounted symlinks" is a loaded term. What exactly do you mean? > And what does su have to do with it? > The symlink is on the nfs server, pointing off of its local file system. /home/root -> /root, and /root is on / on the local system. Thanks, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message