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Re: NFS to IBM mainframe

#177
From: Willy Brandsdorfer
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:05
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In article <1682B1340D.C1899011@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>  writes:
> Hi,
>    I got my turbo Nextstation about 4 months ago.  The system people  
here
> at work are letting me have a small amount of the our IBM mainframes  
disk
> space.  It is running VMNFS and that seems to be working fine.  The  
problem
> that I am having is that when I issue the following mount:
>  
>    mount -o ro,soft umslvma.umsl.edu:c1899011.191,ro,password=mypassword
>      /u/ben/test
>  
> It seems that VMNFS needs the password to the account that is holding  
the
> disk space.  The problem is that when users do a 'df' is shows all the
> stuff after the word soft.  Does anyone out there know how I can fix  
this
> becuse I can't let people see my password to this account.  Any help
> would be great.
>  
>  
>              Ben Pflanz (c1899011@umslvma.umsl.edu)

Look at the MOUNTPW command in VMNFS. It was created to address this  
situation.

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From: wbrand@tigger (Willy Brandsdorfer)
Subject: Re: NFS to IBM mainframe
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