Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:08:19 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:47866 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:08:18 -0400 Subject: Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted? From: Alan Cox To: Dax Kelson Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Kendrick M. Smith" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "nfs@lists.sourceforge.net" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 15 Aug 2002 02:09:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1029373787.28240.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 15 On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:49, Dax Kelson wrote: > The fact that any janitor with a laptop (or any client with a malicious > root user) can nuke all home directories from a standard NFS home > directory server bothers me greatly. Thats not an NFS2 or NFS3 issue, thats an implementation matter. A proper NFS credential system prevents that from occurring. You also have to fix some bogon assumptions in our NFS client too I grant. Alan (who is rapidly becoming an intermezzo freak instead) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/