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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!edwin
- From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
- Subject: Re: HP-UX 8.0 - /etc/exports & netgroups and NFS in general
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.132516.14978@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:25:16 GMT
- References: <C1Dt2q.5t9@lysator.liu.se>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
- Lines: 37
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- In <C1Dt2q.5t9@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
-
- | Another problem we've just ran into is that we seem to be unable to
- | mount files from the HP9K3?? on our SparcStation 1+ that runs
- | Solaris 2.1. We just seem to get an error complaining about
- |
- | "..RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential"
-
- Oh yes... it's a bug... ah well, maybe it isn't, because it's
- documented :-) To put it mildly, it's a feature none of us likes...
-
- It's not HP specific, although it occurs on the extremely out-of-date
- version of NFS that HP supports upto 8.0x (I'm told 9.0x will be based on
- Sun NFSSRC4.0/4.1).
-
- It has to do with users belonging to more than 8 groups. If `root' on the
- client belongs to more than 8 groups, the mount request will fail. If some
- other user does, NFS operations for that user will fail.
-
- The old version rejects the credential, the newer behaviour is to truncate
- the group list to the max. number of groups the server will support.
-
- Check out /usr/include/rpc/auth_unix.h on your system(s); on my 8.05
- system: (funny, notice the `10' and the `8' below ?!?!?!?)
-
- /* gids compose part of a credential; there may not be more than 10 of them */
- #define NGRPS 8
-
-
-
-
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- Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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