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From: johnan@mchale.ism.isc.com (John Antypas)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS root access
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.172054.2361@ism.isc.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 17:20:54 GMT
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In article <3214@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>Jim Reid has pointed out to me that this is wrong.  The client does
>actually seem to be doing a read from the server, but is passing it
>uid 0 (which gets translated to -2) instead of the owner's uid.

Remember for most NFS versions that root gets translated to "nobody"
for security reasons (according to Sun).  Sun is aware that some hosts
should be trusted and is including provisions for this in Sun OS 4.x.


John Antypas / Interactive Systems Corp.
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