NFS on HP9000/840, is single user access possible?

Frank G. Fiamingo frank at hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Sat Dec 23 06:04:09 AEST 1989


I've just installed NFS on an HP9000/840 running HP-UX 3.11.  Some users
have now asked if they can mount their personal directories from the
840 on their office workstations.  These workstations may be Suns, Decs, HPs,
etc., also running NFS.  For this to be successful we need to insure that
they have  full access to their own files, but not be able to acquire
any special access to other files that may be exported along with theirs.
Unfortunately HPs version of NFS requires that you export an entire file
system, which is most likely going to include more than one users files.

To start we need to match UIDs on the two systems and mount the directory
read/write.  This should accomplish the first objective: allowing the
user full access to his/her own files.  

I'm at a loss, though, as to how to accomplish the second objective: 
preventing unwanted access and maintaining security for other files
that might have to be exported along with his own.  e.g. if he has root
priviledges on his own workstation he could easily set-up UIDs to gain
read/write access to files that might be denied him otherwise.  Also,
there might be other users on his system that have UIDs that unintentionaly
match those on the HP.  

So my questions are 1) does anyone know a way to accomplish these objectives?
and 2) are there any other concerns I need to consider before we try to
offer this service?

	Thanks  for your help,
	Frank Fiamingo
frank at hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu



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