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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool?
Keywords: not exactly what he meant...
Message-ID: <4155@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 90 17:56:42 GMT
References: <924@iiasa.UUCP> <8368@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <927@iiasa.UUCP>
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In article <927@iiasa.UUCP>, wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) writes:
Wolf> Actually, every implementation of NFS I have seen (Ultrix 3.0,
Wolf> SunOS 4.x, Interactive SysV/386) allows you to limit Root Access
Wolf> to to specific machines on a per-filesystem basis, in
Wolf> /etc/exports. The syntax varies from OS to OS, but the concept
Wolf> is the same.

Ahh, but what he meant was that if you had local root, you can change
your own UID and GID to one able to modify or read everyone elses'
files except those with a root owner and only owner rw priveledges. Of
course, you can export it read-only with most NFS's but mail doesn't
really work then...

NFS 4.0 may have provided a fix for this, but I don't remember
offhand... 

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