Re: /var/mail and secure NFS

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 10/25/03


Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:09:26 GMT

Emil Petkov <emil.petkov@usa.net> writes:

>Trying to export /var/mail on my mail server and mount it on a client
>box (both Solaris 8 in a NIS+ domain) with sec=dh option gave me decent
>access for root on the client box but no access for normal users. All
>kinds of attempts to access the directory return an error code of 22
>EINVAL. It is not visible if I try to list /var as well.

Do your normal users have nis+ credentials? Have they properly
logged in with a password, so that their credentials are registered
with keyserv?

You can test by having a user "keylogin". After a successful
keylogin, the problem should be resolved.



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