From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 27 16:21:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21225 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.statsci.com (apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21218 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.statsci.com (apple [206.63.206.4]) by apple.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/MX) with ESMTP id QAA11686; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706272321.QAA11686@apple.statsci.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at, questions@freebsd.org, nadav@barcode.co.il Subject: Re: NFS mounts on NT with Hummingbird Maestro References: <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:41:16 -0600." <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:45 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC 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