Iain Grant wrote:
> Advice required here.
>
> I have an EBSA-285 booting off an NFS share ( currently an Alpha Linux 5.2
> system ).
> The NFS share contains the DM image from the Netwinder.org ftp site.
> I have made floating point changes and startup changes to the image.
>
> The problem I have is when I log into the EBSA as root I don't have
> permission do do some things.
>
> For example, I cannot run mknod to create a dev in the /dev area.
> If I create another account using adduser, it successufully creates the
> account but won't let the user become super user. ( When I do the same
> commands on my intel/alpha the user can be super user ???? )
>
> Any thoughts.
>
> I think it could be the NFS share but I'm not sure.
>
By default, a NFS server transform all requests done by root to nobody, for
security reasons.
If you don't want that, add option "no_root_squash" in you /etc/exports on
server for each dir exported to the EBSA285
christophe
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