Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:45 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at, questions@freebsd.org, nadav@barcode.co.il Subject: Re: NFS mounts on NT with Hummingbird Maestro Message-ID: <199706272321.QAA11686@apple.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:41:16 -0600." <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com> References: <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com>
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Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> wrote:
> Every UNIX NFS server I've ever encountered, and that is a *LOT* of
> them, allow you to specify what you want to do with remote root
> requests. This includes, of course, HP-UX. Sometimes this is an
> option to the NFS mounter daemon rather than a specification in the
> exports database.
On HP-UX I don't think that you could do that up to & including about 8.x or
maybe some 9.x versions. I remember seeing a 'setnobody' program floating
around that went & tweaked a live kernel variable to set the UID that it
mapped root to (from its default of -2 to 0, for example :-)).
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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