To be wheel, or not to be wheel (summary)

From: Sun System Programmer (icarus@end.tufts.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 15 1991 - 12:10:27 CST


First of all, a big thanks to everyone who overwhelmed my mailer
with replies. It turns out that such a problem can be attributed to
any of the following:

Being in >8 groups
Having a blank line at the end of the NIS group file
Not having root access in /etc/exports

My problem primarily was the latter. I recently, for reasons of space, made
/export/local on my server, and mounted it on /usr/local. But I forgot to give
it root access in /etc/exports. So although /usr was exported with root, and mounted
read-write, and so worked fine, /usr/local would change all root accesses to 'nobody'
for uid.

So it doesn't seem to have been a bug, just an oops in setup that I wouldn't even have
though of without all your help. THANKS!

Now, does anybody else have a problem with some users running SunView, some running
OpenWindows, and so the SunView users end up with multiple selection_svc processes
leading to those wonderful "Can't get shelf" and "Permission Denied on /tmp/MT234c3"
errors? Anyone know how to solve this? I had a machine with 3 selection_svc's
running today...

                                                Michael

Big thanks to:
trc@esd.3com.com
mahesh@caradhras.cc.nd.edu
pete@cs.umd.edu
stern@east.sun.com
bigmac@erg.sri.com
sbradley@iwarp.intel.com
beyea@zeus.erc.msstate.edu
udellt@mist.CS.ORST.EDU
simon%ucs.adelaide.edu.au
shipley@remarque.berkeley.edu
phil@wubios.wustl.edu
wuthel!brand@lll-winken.llnl.gov
mikulska@mephisto.ucsd.edu
rlk@Think.COM
jmattson@UCSD.EDU
sol!rodan!stack@esosun.css.gov
liz@cgdisis.cgd.ucar.EDU
ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu
bb@math.ufl.edu
Pilotti@Jupiter.SAIC.COM
fabrice@sj.ATE.SLB.COM
Piete.Brooks@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk
lorin@litsun.epfl.ch
sater@cs.vu.nl
andie@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk
Dourish@europarc.xerox.com
rick@wiau.medical-biophysics.manchester.ac.uk
selig@centaur.msfc.nasa.gov
independent!dwight@relay.EU.net
bader@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL
jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.ca
sitongia@hao.ucar.edu
knutson%SW.MCC.COM@MCC.COM
turtle@sciences.sdsu.edu
loral!jes@UCSD.EDU
oconnor!trinity!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu



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