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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 11 | ||||
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@@ -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 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. |