Re: [netatalk-admins] some questions and comments re. Netatalk+Asun


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] some questions and comments re. Netatalk+Asun
From: Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 12:27:30 EDT


> > 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 ....

sure it would, no more or less than any other file you put into your NFS
exported home or whatever directory

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