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From: icsu6000@caesar (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Root permission on NFS
Message-ID: <3426@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 23:10:29 GMT
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Reply-To: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
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> By the way, I was wandering around an SG machine the other day, kicking
> the tires and such, and it looks like they can allow root access from a
> particular machine, instead of the blanket access of the kernel patch.
> Is this something that HP will provide, say in a future (sigh) release?



I hope so...  Even DEC has this "feature" and it suprises/annoys me that 
HP doesn't.  It sure is useful, even if it makes the machine a little
less "secure", I feel better knowing which nodes will screw it up via
the root user mapping to 0 or nobody.

C'mon HP! :-)
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