From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Fri 27 Aug 1999 - 17:58:51 IST
> >use 32-bit uid's, that you use only nfsv3. If you use nfsv2, the uid will
> >be sent to the nfs client as 65535 and as you could imagine, there are a lot
> >of subtle security nasties associated with this.
>
> ah, right. so in order to use 32bit uid's linux just needs to change
> some kernel structs, several fs's and add nfsv3 support. gee, it's
> almost done.
there is 32-bit UID patch out there somewhere for 2.2, it fixes ext2 and
a couple of other fs I think, and 2.4 should
have it, or was it 2.6, ah well... it gets mentioned on l-k every so often
..
Dave.
>
> kevin
>
>
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