field@elvis.cs.pitt.edu (Brian Field) (02/01/91)
I'm working on a small project that requires a sun to mount its root, swap, and user partions from a 386 running Sys V Release 3.2. The problem is I can't get the sun to access its root partition as root. I know that when I mount a partition from a sun NFS server, that the server knows I have root access via the -root option specified in /etc/exports on the NFS server. However, I can't seem to find any documentation on the 386 that talks about this option. Am I looking in the wrong place, or does this option not exist. Please e-mail, and I'll summarize if there is interest. Thanks Brian ----- field@cs.pitt.edu
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (02/01/91)
In article <9848@pitt.UUCP> field@elvis.cs.pitt.edu (Brian Field) writes: >The problem is I can't get the sun to access its root partition as >root. I know that when I mount a partition from a sun NFS server, >that the server knows I have root access via the -root option >specified in /etc/exports on the NFS server. However, I can't seem to The problem is that the root id on the client machine is being mapped to the "nobody" id (usually (unsigned int) -2) on the 386 system. The only way around this is to change the value of nobody to a zero. HOWEVER, this means that the root user on ANY NFS client has root privileges on any NFS partition that you export. This is typical of the 386 versions of NFS at this time. The If you are still interested, I posted the sources to do this (kernmod.c) a short time ago. Look around your system to see if it is lying around. If not, let me know & I will email it to you. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170