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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: INFO-UNIX Digest  V9#026
Message-ID: <4380@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 2 Jan 90 13:34:15 GMT
References: <21918@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK)
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In article <21918@adm.BRL.MIL> SURF159%KUB.NL@cunyvm.cuny.edu (NIH Amsterdam, wg5) writes:
>There is but one difference, the
>superuser of the workstation has only his influence on its own machine and
>has no extra privileges than a normal user on the mounted filesystems.

Yes, but don't forget that if a user is root on their workstation,
they can use su to become any other user, and look through that user's
files on other hosts via NFS.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland