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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4815 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1314 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: NETBSD 0.9 NFS AUTHENTICATION ( A PROBLEM) Message-ID: <michaelv.746904298@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <25t7p9INN6lq@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <25tr3h$ade@ss1.introl.com> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 17:24:58 GMT Lines: 26 In <25tr3h$ade@ss1.introl.com> tim@introl.com (Tim Chase) writes: >In article <25t7p9INN6lq@darkstar.ucsc.edu> buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) writes: >> >>... >> Does anyone in the know of the basics of the 0.8 and 0.9 kernels know >>what may have changed to cause this big problem? Did someone try to use >>effective uids in the ucred structures of the nfs requests rather than the >>real uid? Or, vice versa? >>... >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. Have you tried recompiling the programs in question yet? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------