Holbrook.OsbuSouth@xerox.com (01/05/89)
We have a net with a number of personal workstations in people's offices, a few common lab workstations, and two servers. All machines are Sun-4s running OS 4.0. Because these are personal workstations, each person who owns a machine has a root password for their own machine. We have separate passwords for the servers and lab machines that are known to our adminstrators. The lab machines and servers have /.rhosts files that allow them to get root access to each other, but none of the personal workstations are in the /.rhosts on the servers. We have two file servers that all these machines share. Each personal workstation has a local disk, but all of the home directories on on the file servers. We use automounting to access mount the servers as needed. We run a single yellow pages domain. Here's the problem: each person can su to root own their own machine, but they can't get to anyone else's files because they are root and NFS doesn't give them full access. However, if they then su to any other person's account, they then have access full access to that person's files on the server. I'm rather new at this, and I have a feeling I've missed something obvious. Any help would be most appreciated. Paul Holbrook Holbrook.osbusouth@xerox.com