On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:56:08PM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote: > That only works if your export from the server allows it: > > [todd@fiji ~]$ cat /etc/exports > /usr 192.168.3.0/24(ro,root_squash,sync) > > What he's asking for seems to be common in some places, but I've never > implemented it myself, mostly due to the fact that so many things seem > to want to write to /usr. Those things that are being written to /usr > seemingly should be written to /var. Then again, there's nothing > preventing us from making those directories be symlinks to someplace in > /var on the local machine. Maybe that's a plausible road to take.
Well root_squash is only useful for an NFS mounted share. I wasn't necessarily arguing against the changes. In some respects it makes sense to me. But I don't think security is really a valid argument for it. But I do think it's a useful feature to administrators that want to remotely mount /usr via NFS. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
