Thanks, Brian. The host was allowing root access to be exported, but
the client in question was refusing to take it. I had to edit the
vfstab file to make it work.
Brian Cuttler wrote:
> Jenn,
>
> NFS mounting file systems tends to make suid bits fall off.
> Remote mount treats ROOT as nobody unless you are using root
> access in the /etc/exports file. Its been a problem for us,
> don't know if it is an issue for you.
>
>
Brian
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>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I recently moved two Solaris 2.6 machines from using ufsdump to using
>>gtar. These two machines nfs mount another machine for their
>>/usr/local, and that's where amanda's installed. One machine works just
>>fine, but on the other machine tar is failing on several directories
>>with "cannot savedir: Permission denied." This seems fair enough,
>>except that, of course, both machines are using the same setuid root
>>runtar. When I run tar manually as root, the directories in question
>>can be tarred just fine, so I'm naively guessing that the problem is
>>somehow stemming from runtar, but how?
>>
>>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jenn Peterson
>>
>>
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