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From: markf@hpupnja.HP.COM (Mark Fresolone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re^2: Root permission on NFS
Message-ID: <1520008@hpupnja.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 90 21:17:38 GMT
References: <11590023@hpubvwa.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Piscataway, NJ
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>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.

It may be even worse than that...   users mounting your volumes from
Personal Computers (via PC-NFS) also receive the "nobody" user ID.
When you give "nobody" super-user access, "anybody" with a PC can
ruin your day.

#include <disclaimer.h>
Mark Fresolone