Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] some questions and comments re. Netatalk+Asun
From: Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 12:12:11 EDT
> With the use of ~/.passwd there's the problem that afpd tries to access that
> file as root. Now if ~ is on an NFS mounted volume where root is mapped to
> nobody afpd cannot access ~/.passwd. I think the proper way would be for
> afpd to change its effective uid to that user for accessing ~/.passwd.
> Would that be hard to add?
>
but then the content of .passwd would be exposed on the
network by NFS ....
gerry
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