Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted?

Alan Cox
2002-08-15T01:08:19Z

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:49, Dax Kelson wrote:
> The fact that any janitor with a laptop (or any client with a malicious
> root user) can nuke all home directories from a standard NFS home
> directory server bothers me greatly.

Thats not an NFS2 or NFS3 issue, thats an implementation matter. A
proper NFS credential system prevents that from occurring. You also have
to fix some bogon assumptions in our NFS client too I grant.

Alan (who is rapidly becoming an intermezzo freak instead)