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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: FIX: Losing Preferences
- Message-ID: <BuLFBp.AyJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <BuKzCG.4KE@monitor.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:13:58 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- shawn@monitor.com writes:
-
- >Sorry if this is a rehash for some of you.
-
- >A number of folks have had problems with folks on their network losing their
- >Preference settings (or rather, not having them stay changed) when they log
- >out and back in.
-
- >This generally will happen when a user's home directory is on an network NFS
- >mounted drive. The problem is that Preferences runs SUID root and expects
- >root access to the device it is writing to.
-
- But I have changed my Preferences to mode 755 so that no one but
- root can change the clock time. Why should Preferences need to be
- suid in order to write to the home dir of the person logged in?
- (I have been noticing this problem as well, keyboard preferences
- aren't getting saved)
-
- >The fix is to export the server volume with root access to the machines that
- >need it, or you can export it to the world with root access (obvious security
- >issues here). In your /etc/exports file:
- > /Users -root=machine1:machine2:machine3 etc.......
- >to allow certain machines root access to /User and:
- > /Users -anon=0
- >to allow the world root access to /User.
-
- No way, not going to open up security holes like that... I want a
- better answer... :-)
-
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