[comp.sys.sgi] suid,nosuid in NFS

mcdonald@AEDC-VAX.AF.MIL (06/27/91)

I was recently looking at the man page for /etc/fstab on a machine running
Ultrix 4.1.  I saw a reference to the options suid and nosuid which do:

      suid:  process the setuid attribute on execution of files in the
             file system.

      nosuid: do not process the setuid attribute on execution of files
              in the file system.

I was wondering if Irix 4.0 is going to support these options in mounting
nfs directories?  This is in demand for the security of our systems using
nfs.

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arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) (06/27/91)

In article <9106262024.AA13271@ccfiris.aedc> mcdonald@AEDC-VAX.AF.MIL writes:
>I was wondering if Irix 4.0 is going to support these options in mounting
>nfs directories? 

Yes, 4.0 does support "nosuid" and "nodev" (disallows access to character 
and block special files) for at least efs and nfs filesystems.