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Re: Diskless Client under 4.0

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From: David Robinson
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 20:09
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zombolas@ads.com (Gene Zombolas x7624) writes:
< In article <2634@eos.UUCP> steinmetz!gemed!sol!blc@uunet.uu.net (Brett Chapman) writes:
< >I do think that it would be nice if you could create swaps where ever
< >there was space.  Well, maybe in 4.0.2 (-:.
< 
< I'm unsure if the question was clearly answered.  If you want to move the
< swap to another file system, such as /home/swap/<client>, this is ok.  If
< /home is already exported, then you cannot export /home/swap/<client>.
...

I have not tried this but if you don't want to give root access to /home
in this example, why not make the swap file owned by "-2" (aka nobody),
you still have the potential of other roots on other clients trashing your
swap space but at least you don't give root away on all of /home.

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From: david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Diskless Client under 4.0
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