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Re: Re[4]: nfs-mounting kelim.jct.ac.il



On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Gavrie Philipson <gavrie@kelim.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> > Not any more. I've fixed the permissions, so you don't have to be root to 
> > access the files any more. Sorry.
> [skipped]
> > 
> > These are the standard Slackware daemons (2.2.0). Does anyone know of any 
> > problems with them, and if there are, how to fix them? Evgeny?
> 
> The fact that root from any host can read your files marked as root-only-read is
> big security hole, isn't it?! Or, maybe, you're using root_squash option in the
> exports file? :^)

As a matter of fact, I am :-)
I don't care about security in the directory tree that I export. It's 
easier that way, 'cause I don't have to check the permissions of all 
files and they are all public anyway.

Gavrie.

> 
> Take the latest sources for nfsd and portmap from
> ftp://tarsier.cv.nrao.edu/pub/people/okir/nfsd
> 
> Evgeny
> 


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