sblair@synoptics.COM (Steven C. Blair) (07/17/90)
Last week I posted aquestion about PC/NFS and control-c@ login
time on a PC. If you hit a ctrl-c at the time of login, then
the ownership of files inserted onto the fileserver is -2.
**I got the following from a response from : agcsun!jerry@boulder.COLORADO.edu
**(Jerry Stachowski) who says:
**
**Steve,
**It appears that you seeing normal PC-NFS behavior. If you look at the pcnfs
**daemon source, you can find out, (with some digging), that if the user doesn't
**run the net name command or they abort the command, they are logged in as
**nobody.
OK, thanks Jerry. But the problem still exists. So I call Sun, and get the
following information:
**I contacted Tech Support at Sun and was told that now they have a patch for
**NET.EXE which will not be aborted by Ctrl-C. We should receive the modified
**NET.EXE within a couple days. Since it concerns the security of our files in
**PC-NFS system, we would like to see the NET.EXE file in all PC's been replaced.
**But users should not be told about this problem.
The moral of the story is:
If you're using PC/NFS, and you're concerned about the *S* word, you'd better
get in touch with Sun, and get the fix!!!
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Steven C. Blair Network Operations Center
SynOptics Communications Inc. Mountain View, California
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