NFS security

[Jerry Carlin]

In article <604 at sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> liam at cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
>This is not an NFS problem, since it is equally applicable to
>non-superusers on a local machine: it is simply a hint that
>mknod should be root-only. :-)

This is not a problem in the System V.2 world. Not only does mknod.c
check for superuser (easily bypassable) but mknod(2) does not allow
anyone but root to mknod anything but FIFO's.

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