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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Uid in sendmail and NFS
Message-ID: <2699@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 23 Feb 90 19:45:34 GMT
References: <10261@ardent.UUCP> <3741@zehntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <3741@zehntel.UUCP> deb@zehntel.zehntel.com (Deborah Heller) writes:
>       When your server exports the file system to the client(s)
>	mounting /usr/spool/mail, use options to allow access=root.

...provided your workstation users can't become root on their workstations
(which is far from trivial to prevent), or they can all (obviously)
read/modify/delete each others mail. (Also, I believe Sun's syntax is
root=client1:client2... up to a max of 10, and netgroups don't work...)

Regards
--Per Hedeland
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