[ILUG] NFS and root squashing: Solution and security?

[Cormac McClean]

Hi,

Thanks for the help and suggestions yesterday.

I have a solution to the problem, but I'm not happy
with it. The problem is that when I mount the
nfs-exported /home on the client, I cannot see
the contents of the user directories. I have
exported /home as
	/home (rw,no_root_squash)
but root squashing seems to be occuring anyway(?)

My solution was to do a chmod 755 on /home/cormac.
I can now see (as root) the contents of /home/cormac 
and all subdirectories. But, is this an unacceptable 
solution from a security point of view?

The purpose of the nfs server would be to distribute
home directories using NIS/NFS to a small number of
PCs in a lab for a Linux course (only used 4 hours 
a week). 

Regards,
Cormac.