chytil@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) (11/09/90)
Dear netters, since I'm a little bit unfamiliar with the hidden secrets of rpc-calls I'd like to avoid running pcnfsd under root's uid. Will it loose any functionality when running under user.none (right - this is Domain/OS ) ? BTW, the recent posting of pcnfsd has expired before I felt the need to save it ( actually I didn't read this group before two weeks ago ). Could some kind soul point me to an archive where it's kept ? Thanx, bye Georg -- <------------Golden apples of the sun, silver apples of the moon--------------> Chytil Georg Systemdamager@Dep. of VLSI (vlsivie) TU Wien A-1040 Wien Austria chytil@vlsivie.{tuwien.ac.at,uucp} chytil@egh780.una.at +43/(0)222/58801/8146 #include <extra_disclaimer.h> Don't panic! Fax: +43/(0)222/569697
geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (11/09/90)
Quoth chytil@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Chytil Georg) (in <1962@tuvie>): # #Dear netters, # #since I'm a little bit unfamiliar with the hidden secrets of rpc-calls #I'd like to avoid running pcnfsd under root's uid. Will it loose any #functionality when running under user.none (right - this is Domain/OS ) ? PCNFSD invokes setreuid() and setregid() in order to make sure that any print files are owned by the correct user, and (depending on how your spooler works - I don't know DOMAIN/OS) have the correct banner on them. I assume that you need what X/Open calls "appropriate privileges" to execute these calls. This usually means running as root. -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time *** *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not *** *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush ***