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Re: shared NFS systems



* "Norbert Veber" 

| On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:40:40PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
| > Oh, throw in NFS-mounted /home and NIS and you have a
| > generic-terminal system - any user can log in to any terminal in
| > any part of the office and go to work.  It works for us, at least.
| 
| How do you get around users with local root (legitamate or not) nfs mounting
| and masquarading as other users or root?

<URL:ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/keithl/SES/> for instance, which exports
your home directory only after you have authenticated via kerberos.

-- 

Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.



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