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In article <Bwwr2q.3wG@cs.psu.edu>, kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
|-> In article <1992Oct29.132948.24920@e3u001.ped.pto.ford.com> cannell@ed8217.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell) writes:
|-> >Ken Hornstein (kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu) wrote:
|-> >: 
|-> >: Even though the man page for mountd claims otherwise, you can't put netgroups
|-> >: in /etc/exports.  (well, you CAN, they just won't do anything useful).  I
|-> >: wouldn't mind this so much if it wasn't DOCUMENTED INCORRECTLY.  Argh.
|-> >: 
|-> >: --Ken
|-> >
|-> >That's news to me.  I've been using netgroups in /etc/exports for a number of
|-> >months now and don't appear to be having any problems.  Perhaps you could 
|-> >elaborate on "can't put netgroups in /etc/exports".  Maybe I'm missing
|-> >something obvious in our configuration.
|-> 
|-> Fair enough.  I have the following entry in our netgroups map:
|-> 
|-> physics		(annett.phys.psu.edu,,) (banavar.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(bangalore.phys.psu.edu,,) (collins.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(corsica.phys.psu.edu,,) (etat.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(faraday.phys.psu.edu,,) (glue.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(neutron.phys.psu.edu,,) (phoenix.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(psuphys1.phys.psu.edu,,) (quixote.phys.psu.edu,,)\
|-> 		(color.phys.psu.edu,,) (willis.phys.psu.edu,,)
|-> 
|-> and this line in /etc/exports:
|-> 
|-> /export/home	physics
|-> 
|-> So, for example, the host color.phys.psu.edu, should be able to mount
|-> /export/home, right?  I get permission denied.  If I put color.phys.psu.edu
|-> in the export line, it works.  Major blah.  This doesn't work on our ultrix
|-> 4.0 and our ultrix 4.3 system.
|-> 
|-> --Ken

The HP nfsd's and mountd's don't understand fully qualified hostnames.  If
you modify your netgroups to include both fully qualified names as well
as just individual names, it will work fine.  Kind of a security hole, you
say?  You betcha.

Peter
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