Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!convex!thurlow From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Why not export /fs /fs/subdir? Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 04:18:19 GMT References: <1991Jun17.224716.4729@Think.COM> <1991Jun18.040038.15141@Think.COM> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: dhostwo.convex.com In droms@regulus.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms) writes: >In article thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes: > Barry, a Sun-based client won't send such lookups to a server, [...]. >I think the point is not that a Sun-based client would send such >lookups to a server, but rather a hand-crafted program (we usually >site "enterprising students" as the source of such programs) could >issue an appropriate sequence of lookups to gain access to files >outside of the mounted subtree. ... and if you read the rest of my article, I stated that Sun servers refused to cooperate with this. I consider this the correct behaviour, and think that any system that would permit a student from doing this is broken. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com An employee and not a spokesman for Convex Computer Corp., Dallas, TX