Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:58:52 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file Message-ID: <20000828095852.L1209@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000828165206.AFA527C57@yellow.rahul.net>; from dhesi@rahul.net on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:52:06AM -0700 References: <freebsd-stable.4.3.2.7.2.20000825120608.00b4d4a8@mail.megapathdsl.net> <20000828165206.AFA527C57@yellow.rahul.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> [000828 09:52] wrote: > 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. That makes about as much sense as making read-only mounts and maproot into "suggestions" for the clients instead of enforced on the server. Basically, you're wrong. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000828095852.L1209>