[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS no_root_squash option

[Bug Hunter]

  Hmmm.  two things:

 1) try setting a machine name in your exports file, and have the machine
name listed in /etc/hosts.  That might solve the root squash problem.

  2)  run a cron job every few minutes to change the owner of all files in
that directory.

  Also...

  don't put the machine on the net unless you upgrade Sendmail and the
other packages. RedHat maintains a list of upgrades for that version that
are well worth the download. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/  look under updates/5.2


bug

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, George E. Lass wrote:

> After upgrading to RedHat 5.2 (please, no rude comments,
> I have some vendor software that will only run on that
> version), I am having problems with NFS access as user root.
> 
> My /etc/exports file is:
> 
> /xl     (rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
> 
> But when I write /xl/temp/xxx remotly as root I get:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 65534    65534           4 Jul 19 14:05 xxx
> 
> It looks like the root user ID has been "squashed" even though
> /etc/exports specifies no_root_squash.
> 
> The real problem is that I have to set all of my directories under /xl
> to -rwxrwxrwx in order to be able to create files remotely...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> George
> 
> -- 
> ... Unix IS a user friendly O/S ...
> (It's just picky about its friends)
> 
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