From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 25 10:15: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B395A37B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22643E8D3 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA70412; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kciLink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14758.43416.82239.11410@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "AL" == Allen Landsidel 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