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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Does IRIX support "secure" nfs?
- Message-ID: <rveq3g8@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: nfs, secure
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov5.032429.2196@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:24:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.032429.2196@igor.tamri.com>, lim@igor.tamri.com (Bill Lim) writes:
- > I haven't seen anything in my system manuals about any kind of
- > secure nfs. I have used SUN's secure nfs option and am wondering
- > if it or a functional equivalent exists for IRIX?
- >
- > SUN's secure nfs can prevent a user with root permissions on his/her own
- > workstation to "su" to another user and view or change that user's
- > files, via nfs, unless the file permisssions are set r/w for others.
-
-
- I thought all NFS servers by default mapped UID 0 to "nobody", usually
- UID=-1 or something similarly bogus. The original SUN reference source
- did. So have all SGI NFS products.
-
- I understood "secure NFS" to be something else entirely, which SGI does
- not support. Either the Kerberos modifications to NFS or something
- related to the (said by some to be not very) secure Sun RPC.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-