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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> What Chris said. Sounds like you are running afoul of the 'nobody'
> syndrome: root is mapped to an unlikely UID ('nobody', usually -2),
> which gives it less than useful access permissions on remote volumes.
> You shouldn't be root anyway. Bad engineer. No biscuit.

Did try accessing it as non-root. It behaves the same way as accessing it
when you're root. Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn't be doing stuff as root,
but it's kinda hard to mount things when yer not. Hmm... can you
mount things as non-root under Darwin/OS X?

And again, I'm mounting the root level of the remote machine. Even as
nobody, it would be able to cd into it and do an ls.

Wait a minute... bad engineer, no biscuit... you didn't by some chance
attend UC Santa Cruz, did you? We have a professor that says that a lot.
Just wondering. :-)


> As for Linux, it has a penchant for requiring privileged ports, which
> can be worked around on one end or the other.

That's interesting. I'll look into that. It stil doesn't explain why the
NetBSD NFS server does the same sort of thing, though.


David

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