.rhosts vs. hosts.equiv

[Robert Thurlow]

In <1991Jan14.204220.21276 at mthvax.cs.miami.edu> aem at mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:

>In <KIMMO.SUOMINEN.91Jan12220436 at kannel.lut.fi> Kimmo.Suominen at lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes:

>>That's the only way it works for me.  Additionally, I must have
>>x-permission to other (and I have it for group also) for my home
>>directory.  Otherwise I can't access hosts that have my home directory
>>mounted via NFS.  This is propably due to root being translated to
>>nobody over NFS-mounts.

>So you're saying that root owns your .rhosts?

No, no:  read what he says.  He needs other-x to allow other systems to
mount his home directory on his behalf (likely via on/rexd, right Kimmo?).
mount(2) has to do an NFS getattr operation after it clears the mount
daemon check, and that operatin is done with a credential of 'root'.  It
seems to me that he'd have no problems if he was in his home directory,
but that it would quit working if he tried an 'on' from one of his
subdirectories.

Rob T
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