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RS/6000 attach/mount

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Nov 9 23:49:14 1991

To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 91 23:49:16 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>


When the RS/6000 attaches a filesystem, the initial lookup request
is run by root.  This means it is impossible to attach a "fascist"
filesystem unless root is authenticated to the fileserver.  I don't
know if this is a bug in attach uid handling or a kernel misfeature.


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