Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:34:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? Message-ID: <199907312234.PAA64606@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199907301613.JAA03962@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 30, 1999 09:13:52 am"
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Mike Smith writes: > v2 NFS doesn't support UIDs > 65535, and UIDs around that number are > magic to it as well. There are serious security issues here (files > will appear to be owned by the wrong user). Hmm, isn't this a separate bug in itself (unrelated to pwd_mkdb)? Ie, somewhere in the kernel there should be a check for "UID wrap" that generates an error if detected. At least on the server; on the client of course it would be too late. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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