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RE: Some questions about the nfs source package was: RE: NFS server(final?)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: Some questions about the nfs source package was: RE: NFS server(final?)
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Robb, Sam wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > Which uid should own /etc/exports? [default 0 (root)]
>
> Err... this is the point where I get horribly embarrassed.
>
> I ran into the "who should own the exports file?" problem
> early on, and thought, "I'll just punt this for now". Well,
> other things naturally came to occupy my attention...
>
> So if you look at the auth_init() function in auth_init.c,
> you'll see that the exports file permissions checks are
> currently disabled if you build under Cygwin.
>
> From what folks have said (particularly Pierre), it seems
> like using SYSTEM (18) as the owner and Administrator (544)
> as the group would be acceptable as a default. So, unless
> someone gives me a reason not to use that, It will go in
> to today's changes.
>
> -Samrobb
Sam,
I believe the convention is to use (at least sshd uses) SYSTEM as both the
owner and the group...
Igor
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