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 8014fb4a9e5692f2f8925c478a2f4c34fce666af..233108631cb2a41ed13f909ba6694591dfb5c564 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Author: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
+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 <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
 Date:  Mon Aug  7 16:35:03 AEST 2006
 

diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
index ec33442db64911c6c84054adb391aac54ccbe5c2..d57b8b41cccaf302be0b00cdf752177bf59763cf 100644 (file)
--- 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.