[TriLUG] Re: NFS and remote tape access

[jeremyp at pobox.com]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Michael S Czeiszperger wrote:

> I tried mounting the remote file system to back up on the machine with the 
> tape drive, but root can't access the files on the remote machine that aren't 
> world readable. Is there some magic NFS setting for this?

Yes, look at the "no_root_squash" entry in the man page for
exports.  Then, have the backup client run as root, and you should be
golden.  By default, NFS "sqaushes" root into UID nobody for security
reasons.

--Jeremy