From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 15:04:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA14633 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:04:34 -0700 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA14613 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 15:04:00 -0700 Received: (from didier@localhost) by aida (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA00356; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:15:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:15:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny X-Sender: didier@aida To: Luigi Rizzo cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question on pcnfsd In-Reply-To: <199507240956.LAA16380@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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