Re: NFS Security Question
From: Ryan Russell (ryan@securityfocus.com)Date: 08/15/01
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:30:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Ryan Russell <ryan@securityfocus.com> To: Matthew Collins <pingu@zymurgy.org> Subject: Re: NFS Security Question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0108150927100.9193-100000@mail>
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Matthew Collins wrote:
> While true this is pure semantics; you need authenticated NIS/NFS usage
> as Darren describes. If I can get root I can just vipw, add bob locally
> and su to bob to cd into his directory if its available to this machine.
Yes, several people wrote me with the same thing. What I didn't state is
that, of course, I get to play all the tricks that root can play. Like
hijacking Bob's TTY. But your way works too. :)
Ryan
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