a second "unspoofable" uid with NFS
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Jan 31 06:19:00 AEST 1991
>Is it possible to configure NFS to support a second userid switch so
>that the files that don't need to be owned by root can be owned by this
>second special ID?
It depends on the NFS implementation. Most don't allow that, as far as
I know; some may implement RFS-style user ID mapping (I think Cray
originally proposed doing that; dunno if they implemented it in their
server code).
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