From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 14: 6:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC31414F2D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA02737; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:14:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903022214.RAA02737@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NFS mounting /home In-Reply-To: from "Eric D. Fehr" at "Mar 2, 99 03:18:00 pm" To: fehr@idirect.com (Eric D. Fehr) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:14:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric D. Fehr wrote, > 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. I don't understand this. You say you cannot su to root in multi-user mode (from another user I assume). But when you go into single user mode, you can su to root... which seems obvious since you already are root. Can you login as root from a console when you have the /home tree NFS mounted? I still don't understand how the home directory would enter into this. Anyway, isn't root's home directory listed a /root in /etc/passwd anyway (not /home/root)? Or did you change that even though you really want it to be /root? > > > 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?) If su cannot find a user's home directory, it does not fail. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message