Re: NIS and file writing

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 By default, NFS remaps root to the user "nobody" in order to minimize 
security issues. The simplest workaround is to not try to write data 
as root to the NFS volume. 

If you're willing to risk the exposure that allowing write permission to root, 
then you can set an option in the NFS server's /etc/exports to allow it; 
the opetion is "no_root_squash". The syntax is as follows: 

    /path/to/volume         *(rw,no_root_squash) 


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Scott R. Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> This might be an obvious question, but I need to ask since I'm facing an 
> obstacle. 
> 
>  I have an isolated network running NIS/NFS utilizing CentOS 5 and RHEL 5. 
> 
>  If I try to compile or write data as sudo or outright as root to an 
> NFS-mounted directory (say I cd to someone else's NFS-mounted directory to 
> try and compile code in their directory), I get permission denied during the 
> write attemps. 
> 
>  Copy their stuff to /tmp or any other local filesystem, and writing is just 
> fine. 
> 
>  How do I resolve this? 
> 
>  Thanks. 
> 
>  Scott 
> 
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