Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file Message-ID: <14758.43416.82239.11410@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000825120608.00b4d4a8@mail.megapathdsl.net> References: <14758.38824.440415.870831@onceler.kciLink.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000825120608.00b4d4a8@mail.megapathdsl.net>
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>>>>> "AL" == Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> writes: AL> server, but my gut instinct tells me it's the server. I would really AL> uneducatedly guess that the server is not switching it's effective user id AL> to that of the user issuing the request before the request is AL> processed. If you could, can you see if you're allowed to modify files AL> that you have read-only access to that are owned by another user/group? I AL> suspect you'll be able to write to any file that you can read from. Nope. If the file is owned by someone else, then all permissions checks work as expected. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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