From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 9:52: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yellow.rahul.net (yellow.rahul.net [192.160.13.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3D937B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yellow.rahul.net (Postfix, from userid 104) id AFA527C57; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file Newsgroups: a2i.lists.freebsd-stable References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Message-Id: <20000828165206.AFA527C57@yellow.rahul.net> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Allen Landsidel 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