Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 2004 12:54:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Pascal Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> So why do you think that is inconsistent with my statement: "the > permissions checking has to be done by the server, period"?
I see it wasn't clear from my reply. I don't disagree at all. Permission checking is the server's job. Clients are untrusted.
> This should be entirely consistent with local file behaviour. > Particularly since the code to deal with the read-only mount option in > nfs_permission() was pretty much cut-n-pasted from vfs_permission().
The original poster said it didn't work for him on an NFSv3 mount. Looking at nfs_permission() I (of course) agree it looks innocent enough.
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