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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4763 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1301 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!news.introl.com!not-for-mail From: tim@introl.com (Tim Chase) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NETBSD 0.9 NFS AUTHENTICATION (not a problem in my case) Date: 31 Aug 1993 09:57:40 -0500 Organization: Introl Corp. Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <25vot4$b30@ss1.introl.com> References: <25t7p9INN6lq@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <25tr3h$ade@ss1.introl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ss1.introl.com In article <25tr3h$ade@ss1.introl.com> I wrote: > >This is just a follow-on question regarding this, I don't have any answers >(yet). I just discovered that under 0.9 and 0.9-current I can't run >xterms anymore that need to access the .Xauthority file via NFS. >I have no Idea whether this worked under 0.8 or, for that matter, >under 386BSD. I'll whip up a test program shortly, but it sure seems >like a suid-root program that changes its id to that of the original >user can't access that user's private files over NFS. After looking into this a bit further, it seems that NFS isn't the problem. A setuid-root program that setuid's itself back to that of the original user has no problem opening read-protected files owned by the original user. -- Tim Chase Introl Corp. Milwaukee, WI USA Email: tim@introl.com Phone: +1 (414) 327-7171