On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:40:56PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [...]
> 
> SunOS-5 seems to leave existing mounts alone and only check for access
> rights on the first access by a client to a filesystem resource, so
> maybe this doesn't have to be the way it is simply due to the
> statelessness of NFS (assuming nfsd and/or the kernel can keep some
> state about remote mounts).

SunOS-5's nfsd doesn't do any check, only mountd does. So if you can get (or
guess) a filehandle, you can access it from anywhere without check.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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