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. > > It is such a strange question I am not sure I understand it. You have a NFS server machine which I assume contains the user directories that are used though NIS and NFS from the clients. But what is NFS client host machine? How does it fit into the picture? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>