NFS security

[der Mouse]

In article <8610 at swan.ulowell.edu>, arosen at eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) writes:
> An NFS server maps uid 0 from incoming RPC requests to 'nobody',
> which is configured into the kernel.  [...]  The kernel can only map
> uid 0.  Yellow Pages, a service provided with NFS, helps managers
> maintain a network-wide password file.

You seem to be confusing NFS with Sun's implementation of NFS (which
other vendors have picked up and are selling as part of their own
product, though DEC in particular seems to have resisted).

Not all NFS servers map incoming uid 0 (an old version of mine didn't).
Of those that do, not all are restricted to mapping only uid 0, nor
need this be done by the kernel.  Not all NFS implementations have YP
supplied as well.  Some people don't *want* a network-wide passwd file.

NFS != Sun's NFS.

					der Mouse

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