On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.10.06 21:49, HXC wrote: > > There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I > > gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly > > my username has the same UID as the computer computer thus my username > > becomes the username of the clients computer. > > UIDs are translated on the machine where you use them, only UID/GID numbers > are transferred via NFS. > > That's the native feature of NFS filesystem (afaik, NFS version four uses > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of UIDS) > > Note that NFS was created (by SUN microsystems) for homogenous networks > where all people/computers used same shared password databases (e.g. NIS, > formerly known as YP). > > For this reason is it (was) not safe for environments where anyone (read: > admin of each system) can set up any access rights (s)he wants. >
Read: if anyone but you has root OR unmonitored physical access to his/her machine, then you lose. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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