Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:14:17 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: dhesi@rahul.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS client ignores "read-only" attribute on file Message-ID: <200008282214.PAA20456@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000828095852.L1209@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Aug 28, 0 09:58:52 am"
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As I recall, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> [000828 09:52] wrote: >> From a philosphical perspective, I'm not sure that the above is >> correct. NFS was designed to work properly only with trusted clients >> that are under the same administrative control as the NFS server. > > That makes about as much sense as making read-only mounts and maproot > into "suggestions" for the clients instead of enforced on the server. > > Basically, you're wrong. He didn't say he agreed with the philosophy, he was just pointing out what the designers were thinking at the time. Usta be we didn't need firewalls, either. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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