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From: root@leuze.UUCP (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Secondary GID access over PC-NFS
Message-ID: <1536@leuze.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 09:33:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.204640.5282@sti.fi>
Organization: Leuze electronic D-7311 OWEN-Teck., W-Germany
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ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes:

>Does anyone know if it's possible to allow a PC-NFS user NFS access
>from the PC using more than one group ID?  I.e. the equivalent of the 
>BSD UNIX /etc/group mechanism. The current implementation of pcnfsd 
>seems to just return the primary GID associated with the user (defined 
>in /etc/passwd) and that is used. We have a need to authorize a PC-NFS 
>user to more than one group!

In PC-NFS 3.0.1 this works well.
But the setuid - setgid scheme does NOT work because of bugs in PC-NFS.

Regards, Fritz

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