chris@cayman.COM (Chris North) (07/04/89)
First of all, you did not misconfigure your desired system of a user mounting a single personal volume which has a link to a public volume. The GatorBox does not currently support symbolic links. There is really no way to accomplish your goal without mounting two volumes. Secondly, there is really no concept of a superuser in NFS. When you mount an NFS volume as the root user, you effectively have the privileges of the nobody (uid=-2) user. This is not just a GatorBox thing it is part of the NFS spec. As far as your trouble copying from AppleSingle volumes to AppleDouble volumes, I would like to hear more. Please send me emall about this. Thanks! -chris -- Chris North chris@cayman.COM Cayman Systems 26 Landsdowne Street Cambridge MA 02139 617-494-1999
chris@cayman.COM (Chris North) (07/05/89)
In article <3299@cayman.COM>, chris@cayman.COM (Chris North) writes: > > > Secondly, there is really no concept of a superuser in NFS. When you > mount an NFS volume as the root user, you effectively have the privileges > of the nobody (uid=-2) user. This is not just a GatorBox thing it is > part of the NFS spec. Actually, I made a mistake in the above statement It's not part of the spec, it's part of the sun implementation. NFS calls from UID 0 are mapped to the UID stored in the kernel variable "_nobody", which can be -2, 0, or for that matter anything else you want to put there (thanks, john :-)) -chris -- Chris North chris@cayman.COM Cayman Systems 26 Landsdowne Street Cambridge MA 02139 617-494-1999