Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:14:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: fehr@idirect.com (Eric D. Fehr) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounting /home Message-ID: <199903022214.RAA02737@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.00.9903021514210.10424-100000@hometown.idirect.com> from "Eric D. Fehr" at "Mar 2, 99 03:18:00 pm"
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Eric D. Fehr wrote, > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Eric D. Fehr wrote, > > > I am attempting to nfs mount the /home filesystem from a Network Appliance > > > NFS server. > > > > > > Here is my problem: > > > > > > I can mount /home, and ssh into the box OK, but when I go to su to root, I > > > just get the standard "Sorry" message, like it is not able to lookup the > > > home directory for the root account. > > > > The 'Sorry' message is when you get the password wrong. Are you using > > the right root password? Logged into the client machine, su will > > require the password of root on the client and not the server. > > I have verified that I am using the correct password - if I reboot > single-user, and replace /home with my pre-NFS copy of /home, everything > works fine. I don't understand this. You say you cannot su to root in multi-user mode (from another user I assume). But when you go into single user mode, you can su to root... which seems obvious since you already are root. Can you login as root from a console when you have the /home tree NFS mounted? I still don't understand how the home directory would enter into this. Anyway, isn't root's home directory listed a /root in /etc/passwd anyway (not /home/root)? Or did you change that even though you really want it to be /root? > > > Is their some quirk of su > > > that does not allow home directories to be NFS mounted symlinks? (or > > > symlinks from an NFS to local file system?) If su cannot find a user's home directory, it does not fail. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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