On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:12 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:28 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > > >> Okay, here's a problem I'm running in to. I have an NFS server that is > >> controlled via NIS for which hosts access the NFS mounts. I need to > >> give root access to an NFS client host machine, but /not/ the NFS > >> mounts. Is there any way at all to control this, other than making the > >> NFS mounts read only? > >> > >> (Yeah I know it's a strange question, but time is pressing and I don't > >> have enough of it to google.) Any help would be appreciated. > >> > >> > > > > By default NFS maps root to nobody. Only if the no_root_squash option > > is used when exported does root from the client have root privileges on > > the nfs filesystem. > > > > Often this also means that root may not even access the nfs filesystem > > at all. > > > > HTH > > "man exports" will give more info, specifically in in the User ID > > Mapping section. > > > > > > Let me see if I understand you, if I don't have 'no_root_squash' in my > > /etc/exports file for a particular NFS share, then if I am root on the > > /client/ I cannot access that NFS mount? If so, that's exactly what > > I"m looking for. > Read the man page, then test it and see if it does what you want.
