The original question was concerning Wollogong PathWay Client NFS Option
Rel 1.1, whether one has to supply a password for every mount of an
exported file system, even for nobody read-only rights.
The answers were :
- That software had security problems, at least about a year ago, use
PC-NFS from Sun.
- Supply the password needed for every mount from a file with DOS input
redirection.
- It does require password. You can supply the password only in security
compromising ways.
- If nobody has no password (i.e. nobody::-2:-2::/:NONE), you can
mount with "mount d: \\hostname\/exported/path nobody []"
As I don't want to have a non-password account on my machines, and I don't
want to write it neither on the command line nor in a separate file, I'll
sit down and write a little C program where the password of nobody is hidden
somehow in the binary, simply calling the mount program with that passwd.
Thanks to :
Michael S. Maiten <msm@Energetic.COM>
"Andrew Luebker" <aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu>
oran@spg.amdahl.com (Oran Davis)
icj@dollar.bf.rmit.OZ.AU (Ian Johnson CMIM)
Eckhard R"uggeberg
Mathematisches Institut der Universit"at G"ottingen
Bunsenstr. 3 - 5
3400 G"ottingen
Germany
erueg@cfgauss.uni-math.gwdg.de
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