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| author | Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> | 2006-10-24 16:09:33 +1000 |
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| committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-10-24 16:09:33 +1000 |
| commit | 95aa4adaec0f6543a5fb9db112953d8ec9a100ff (patch) | |
| tree | de1de02fdd56eb658bd9d5d49c9fb92fb72c0d05 /utils/exportfs/exports.man | |
| parent | 6bd461c4f1708b38f59f9f4a1bec881f027fd8aa (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'utils/exportfs/exports.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/exportfs/exports.man | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
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. |