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SubjectRe: Re: Re: [PATCH]: non-readable binaries - binfmt_misc 2.6.0-test4
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On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:53, Zach, Yoav wrote:
> > --- insecure <insecure@mail.od.ua> wrote:
> > > If the binary resides on a NFS drive ( which
> > > is a very common practice )
> > > then the suid-wrapper solution will not work
> > > because root permissions
> > > are squashed on the remote drive.
> >
> > This is a NFS promlem. Do not work around it by
> > adding crap elsewhere.
> > NFS has to get a decent user auth/crypto features.
> > I did not try it yet, but NFSv4 will address that.
>
> This is not a workaround - it's a solution for systems
> that use the unix user identification mechanism.

In NFSv3 there is _no_ user identification mechanism.
ipaddr based /etc/exports does not count.
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