Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > The permissions issue is an artifact of how NFS works. Sun designed it > to deliver entire filesystems over the network (most often /usr and-or > /home) to trusted clients. "trusted" being the operative word. To get > Unix permissions to work, the uid on the share and client have to match > - that's why we also have NIS - but I've never seen NIS actually used > anywhere, so UIDs tend to be a mix 'n match and almost always devolves > into "full access" to get it to work.
This is how NFS was designed before 1987, when Kerberos came up.... > > CIFS work different, it auths users by username and supports per-field > access control. That's how that protocol works. This is how NFSv4 works. BTW: as long as Linux does not support modern ACLs (originally defined by NTFS, now standardized by NFSv4) Linux will not be able to take advantage from CIFS ACLs. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
