Re: Uid in sendmail and NFS

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From: Per Hedeland
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 19:45

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In article <3741@zehntel.UUCP> deb@zehntel.zehntel.com (Deborah Heller) writes:
>       When your server exports the file system to the client(s)
>	mounting /usr/spool/mail, use options to allow access=root.

...provided your workstation users can't become root on their workstations
(which is far from trivial to prevent), or they can all (obviously)
read/modify/delete each others mail. (Also, I believe Sun's syntax is
root=client1:client2... up to a max of 10, and netgroups don't work...)

Regards
--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se  or
per%erix.ericsson.se@uunet.uu.net  or
...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per

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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
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Subject: Re: Uid in sendmail and NFS
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