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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 1995 16:29:42 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   root owning everything
Message-ID:  <9504022029.AA21539@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504011850.KAA15088@precipice.shockwave.com>
References:  <199504011850.KAA15088@precipice.shockwave.com>

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<<On Sat, 01 Apr 1995 10:50:37 -0800, Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM> said:

> Except for setuid files, the majority of files in / and /usr should be owned
> by root, not bin,  so that I can't nfsmount a volume read-write and su to
> bin and have a party.

> An alternative would be to map uid bin to nobody the same way root is done.

If you care about security, you'll map almost everybody to nobody in
/etc/exports.  I'm not sure if this works right now.

-GAWollman

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