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From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: group permissions when root
Message-ID: <6720@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:39:20 GMT
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[On why mapping root to -2 also maps the gid]

If you don't trust the root uid, why would you trust a
gid that the root might have given him/herself?

Geoff

--Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect(geoff@East.Sun.COM or geoff.arnold@Sun.COM)--
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