problem using sudo on nis environment

[Mitch Marks]

Are you using root_squash on the exporting server?  If so, root of the
client is treated as some special low-privileged user (something like
'nfsnobody') on the exporting machine.

HTH,

 --mitch

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Sarkar, Anirban wrote:

> I have a NIS environment with a linux 7.3 as the NIS master and solaris 5.8
> as the client, all the functionality in NIS works properly.I'm also rinning
> nfs to automount the home directories of the users from the NIS master, when
> the user logs on to the client.
>
> I want to give sudo rights to some users on the client machine, when I add a
> user on the sudoers, they can run the sudo command but it gives the
> following error :
>
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories: Permission denied
> bash: /home/dev121/.bashrc: Permission denied
>
> At this point the user has  uid=0 gid=1(other).
> Basically the user has no access to his home directory once he becomes root.
>
> Can anyone please give me a solution to this, I have spent a lot of time
> finding the solution of this problem on the net, but no luck yet.
>
> -sarkar.
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