Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file Message-ID: <20000828165206.AFA527C57@yellow.rahul.net> References: <freebsd-stable.4.3.2.7.2.20000825120608.00b4d4a8@mail.megapathdsl.net>
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Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> writes: >Leaving this responsibility to the client would be loony as all heck, >considering anyone could then just hack up their own nfs client and use it >to override file permissions on any server they had a valid user/pass on. From a philosphical perspective, I'm not sure that the above is correct. NFS was designed to work properly only with trusted clients that are under the same administrative control as the NFS server. -- Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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