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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set the permission of NFS
Date: 3 Dec 1996 02:39:11 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <57n626$99@ustsu10.ust.hk>,
cscleung@ug.cs.ust.hk (Leung Calvin) writes:
: Hi,
:
: I have question in setting the /etc/exports file. I have man the
: exports and know to map the root access to a users.
: eg.
:
: /usr/home/kelvin -maproot=kelvin dmc004
:
: where kelvin is the user in local.
:
: When client mount the nfs, it doesn't change the owner of the mount point to
: the user kelvin.
: What is the problem?
-maproot changes nfs accesses by user ID 0 to that of the given user (I
thought you had to specify an ID rather than a name). It's for people
that don't want remote root UIDs to trash their filesystem. It's got
nothing to do with the "root" or "mountpoint" of the filesystem.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.