From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted? Date: 15 Aug 2002 02:09:47 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <21654.7858472497$1029374038@news.gmane.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Kendrick M. Smith" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "nfs@lists.sourceforge.net" Return-path: Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12] helo=irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17f9Aw-00061u-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:11:46 -0700 To: Dax Kelson In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs