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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: group permissions when root
Message-ID: <4978@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 19:32:50 GMT
References: <50868@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <15008@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <6720@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <6720@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>If you don't trust the root uid, why would you trust a
>gid that the root might have given him/herself?

For the same reason that you trust a non-root uid that root gives
itself.

-- Richard

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