Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:15:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny <didier@aida.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question on pcnfsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950725001516.348A-100000@aida> In-Reply-To: <199507240956.LAA16380@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am evaluating a shareware NFS client for PC (it's called XFS), > using FreeBSD as a server, and have come across a problem: > > if the client authenticates as root (UID 0), then it can mount the > filesystem exported by the server, otherwise the mount fails. This > behaviour is different from what I experience using Linux as a server. > > I have temporarily overcome the problem by modifying pcnfsd and > returning a fake uid (0) once the client has authenticated properly; > but this is not completely satisfactorily. > > If that matters, requests coming from the client use pcnfsd v.1 > protocol. > > Any explainations, and possible fixes (I think the problem has to > do with mountd). > > Thanks > Luigi > ==================================================================== > Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > ==================================================================== > Use: mountd -n -- Didier Derny didier@aida.org
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