/etc/exports

[Waugh]

Hi,

On ignite sever, /etc/exports file is there
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/rock1 -anon=2,access=rock1
my ? is what is the meaning of -anon=2

Regards
Rkumar

[Shoghi Martinez G.]

From HP-UX export help:
anon=uid If a request comes from an unknown user, use uid as the effective user ID. Note: Root users (uid 0) are always
considered ``unknown'' by the NFS server unless they
are included in the root option below.

The default value for this option is -2. Setting anon
to -1 disables anonymous access.

[Dennis Handly]

>what is the meaning of -anon=2?

All anonymous users, including root and some windows users are changed to 2, bin.

[Avinash20]

anon=-2 means that anonymous rw access to the exported filesystem is allowed.

[sujit kumar singh]

It means that for an unknown user assign the UID 2 that is for the system user "bin".

Also the fact is that we have to prperly give the ownerships properly to the directories and all the subdirectories to bin:bin for the directories
/var/opt/ignite/clients and /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arhives.


Sujit

[sujit kumar singh]

needless to mention is is for any anonymous user trying to access the NFS subsystem on the Ignite server.

[Dennis Handly]

>Sujit: it is for any anonymous user trying to access the NFS subsystem on the Ignite server.

As discussed with Dave before, the only anonymous users are root and some windows logons:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1294612

[sujit kumar singh]

Dennis,


Thanks for the point that u made . I also went thru the post that u have linked in there.

I was surely making a mistake.


Thanks again.

sujit

[Dennis Handly]

>sujit: I was surely making a mistake.

The same one I made. I had to test it myself.