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lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

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non-root NFS access

Short question: Is there a way to access an nfs share on a machine B from a machine A on which you're not root?

Thanks a lot!

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INCSlayer

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Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: non-root NFS access

this might help

If you decide to make your NFS share public and writable, you can use the all_squash option in combination with anonuid and the anongid option. For example, to set the privileges for the user nobody in the group nobody, you can do the following:

; Read-write access to a client on 192.168.0.100, with rw access for the user 99 with gid 99
/files 192.168.0.100(rw,sync,all_squash,anonuid=99,anongid=99))

taken from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nfs

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lardon

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Re: non-root NFS access

That's not really the question. I don't have access to the nfs server either, I just know that with a machine on which I have root access on the same network (let's call it C), I can mount the nfs share. So there is no fundamental reason not to be able to access it from A, except that people usually use nfs by *mounting*, which is root only.

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