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- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: What does an account need for the NFS Server to work?
- Message-ID: <2380FB0814AUG92175204@TGV.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:52:04 GMT
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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- > In article <2380F6CA14AUG92054312@TGV.COM>, adelman@TGV.COM writes:
- > >> I am attempting to set up the NFS server on our Vax to allow access
- > >> from a group of suns. The sun users do not now have accounts on our
- > >> vaxes, and we don't want them to have accounts. We do, however, have to
- > >> create accounts so that the NFS server can map their UID/GID's to a
- > >> valid UIC on our Vax. We are doing this by creating dummy accounts on
- > >> the Vax, and I want to know what these dummy accounts need in order to
- > >> allow the NFS server to work.
- >>
- >> Yes, it will. Even easier is that you can set it /FLAGS=DISUSER.
- >> The only fields the NFS Server looks at are username, UIC, and
- >> default privs.
-
- > I consider this a bug Ken. An account that is flagged as DISUSER should be
- > unusable.
-
- I knew this was going to start a new thread and considered answering
- this in my original mail...
-
- An account which is flagged as DISUSER is still allowed to own
- files under VMS, which shouldn't it be allowed to own files over NFS?
- One of the caveats of a distributed filesystem is distribute security;
- If you want to disable the account, then you should be a disabling it
- on all of the machines. To do otherwise would mean that the customer
- WOULDN'T have the option of doing what the original writer wanted
- with dummy accounts.
-
- Remember NFS isn't using the account to valid against -- no such
- validation takes place, nor do we claim to be doing any. It is only
- using the account to load the UIC-UID mapping information. PCNFSD
- of course checks for DISUSER.
-
- Ken
-
-