NFS security

[William Roberts]

In article <1394 at basser.oz> yar at basser.oz (Ray Loyzaga) writes:
>
>Well what happens if on SunOS 3.5 you do as root on your
>workstation on a remote fs
>mknod ~mydir/mem c 3 0
>
>yup, you end up with a nobody owned copy of /dev/mem.

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. :-)
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