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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:34:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: /sbin/init permission
Message-ID:  <199610141634.SAA06356@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610140816.JAA12775@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Oct 14, 96 09:16:01 am"

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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > I'm not even sure whether this is a bug in NFS or not.  If the file is
> > executable, this should probably suffice.  OTOH, i think with the
> 
> Don't think it' s a bug. The problem is that /sbin/init is accessed
> with root ID, and without root=0 the ID is mapped to nobody and
> access is denied.

Execute permission should suffice to have it executed.  Try modifying
several binaries to mode 0111, and your NFS clients will die horribly
if you wanna execute them.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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