From: Steinar H. Gunderson Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:09:33 +0000 (+1000) Subject: Document sensitive gids X-Git-Tag: nfs-utils-1-0-11~41 X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95aa4adaec0f6543a5fb9db112953d8ec9a100ff;p=nfs-utils.git Document sensitive gids The exports(8) man page already mentions that some non-root users, such as bin, might be just as sensitive as root, and that root_squash thus might not be as effective as one could hope for. Update the documentation to also mention that this could be the case for non-root groups, such as staff. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8014fb4..2331086 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +Author: Steinar H. Gunderson +Date: Wed Sep 13 22:19:39 CEST 2006 + + Document sensitive gids + + The exports(8) man page already mentions that some non-root users, + such as bin, might be just as sensitive as root, and that root_squash + thus might not be as effective as one could hope for. Update the + documentation to also mention that this could be the case for non-root + groups, such as staff. + Author: NeilBrown Date: Mon Aug 7 16:35:03 AEST 2006 diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man index ec33442..d57b8b4 100644 --- a/utils/exportfs/exports.man +++ b/utils/exportfs/exports.man @@ -402,8 +402,11 @@ Here's the complete list of mapping options: .TP .IR root_squash Map requests from uid/gid 0 to the anonymous uid/gid. Note that this does -not apply to any other uids that might be equally sensitive, such as user -.IR bin . +not apply to any other uids or gids that might be equally sensitive, such as +user +.IR bin +or group +.IR staff . .TP .IR no_root_squash Turn off root squashing. This option is mainly useful for diskless clients.