INFO-UNIX Digest V9#026

[Tor Lillqvist]

In article <21918 at adm.BRL.MIL> SURF159%KUB.NL at cunyvm.cuny.edu (NIH Amsterdam, wg5) writes:
>There is but one difference, the
>superuser of the workstation has only his influence on its own machine and
>has no extra privileges than a normal user on the mounted filesystems.

Yes, but don't forget that if a user is root on their workstation,
they can use su to become any other user, and look through that user's
files on other hosts via NFS.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland