Non Superuser NFS Access Request

When files are shared via NFS, the various systems involved must be administered in a coordinated fashion to preserve the integrity of the files and the security of the hosts. To ensure such coordination, we restrict access to SLAC's central NFS fileservers to hosts meeting certain requirements.

The easiest way to satisfy these requirements on your system is to relinquish any superuser privileges you might have on it and turn over all system administration responsibility to SCS. If you are the primary user and/or the system administrator of a system as listed in our CANDO database, you may use this form to request NFS access on such a system.

Some users, on the other hand, need to retain some superuser privileges on their systems. SCS requires that such users must agree to share superuser privileges with SCS and abide by some additional rules before being granted access to SLAC's central NFS fileservers. If you need NFS access from such a system, you cannot request it via this form; you must use the Superuser/NFS Privileges form instead.

To request access to SLAC's central NFS file servers from a system administered entirely by SCS, the primary user and/or system administrator should fill out and submit the following form. To find out who is currently listed in these roles for your system, issue the command,

node -long host-name