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Hi,

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:20:21AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> a solaris NFS client reading from a solaris NFS server allows
> reads from existing file descriptors even if the file has no
> read permission for anyone on the server.

now this sounds scary, but maybe I misunderstood.

> looking at the netbsd NFS code, our NFS server will allow reads and writes
> for the file owner regardless of the file's modes.  in nfsrv_access():

[...]

> so our NFS client should just always use the file's owner in the creds
> for read and write RPCs.  according to snoop, this is what solaris does
> as well.

file owner - or ID that opened the descriptor? "file owner" sounds like
too generous to me (but IANAL^HNFS protocol expert).

Regards,
	-is
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