Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hplsla!hpubvwa!johnb From: johnb@hpubvwa.HP.COM (John Blommers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Root permission on NFS Message-ID: <11590023@hpubvwa.HP.COM> Date: 16 Feb 90 23:13:09 GMT References: <376@node17.mecazh.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Bellevue Sales Lines: 7 This has to do with using adb to edit the unix kernel and change the value of nobody from -2 to zero. This is not the brightest thing to do to your servers, you know, since any root user on any client can now accidentally do a dread rm * on some part of the server file system, buying you big headaches.