Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: knfsd, nlm and SHARE bug (?) | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:08:10 +0000 | From | Piete Brooks <> |
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> Poking about in the knfsd code, I see that when the NLM SHARE request > comes in, we ultimately end up calling nfsd_permission() to check > read access on the file to be shared. However, this is checked with > a UID of nobody. SHARE denies the lock. Thus, unless all files on > the exported directory are world-readable, even a properly > authenticated owner on the Netware system can't do anything with them.
The same is the case with normal locking from some non-Linux clients (e.g. OSF1) -- the file must be world readable if it is to be lockable by the user. I tracked it to similar sounding code, and reported it, but nobody picked it up
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