NFS security

[Sven-Ove Westberg]

In article <604 at sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> liam at cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
|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. :-)

On all SunOS that I have access to (3.2, 3.5, 4.0) I got this when I try.

mknod: must be super-user

So it is a NFS problem.

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
Internet: sow at cad.luth.se