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In article <MIB.92Jan15180425@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael  
I Bushnell) writes:
> In article <1992Jan15.211710.14101@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
> 
>    So, just because your /etc/passwd is world-readable, every user on
>    every computer in the whole world should be able to read it? Maybe we
>    need a fourth set of permissions ...
> 
> Never fear, GNU will, for just this sort of case.

Why don't you use access control list? If there is no mappings between
NFS client's user ID and NFS server's user ID, you can't control access
rights by permission bits, even if you had 12 bits for "rwx" access control.
In other words, tweaking /etc/group doesn't work in this case because
the user you want to mention does  
not have account on your machine.
This can happen in wide area filesystem if the system permits access from
non-local user, e.g. if the system permits access from the world.

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Youki Kadobayashi
<youki@ics.osaka-u.ac.jp> or
<youki%ics.osaka-u.ac.jp@relay.cs.net>
Information Network Architecture Lab.
Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci, Osaka University, Japan
ort of case.

Why don't you use access control list? If there is no mappings between
NFS client's user ID and NFS server's user ID, you can't control access
rights by permission bits, even if you had 12 bits for "rwx" access control.
In other words, tweaking /etc/group doesn't work in this case because
the user you want to mention does