On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 05:58, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 05:47 -0400, Littleguru wrote: > > Hello > > > > I have created a nfs shared directory on my server ,and it mount > > properly on my client station , but I can not go to mounted directory , > > it says " permission denied " > Are you trying to access the NFS share as the root user? If this is the > case you would have to use no_root_squash. However this is an incredibly > insecure thing. Isn't NFS incredibly insecure even with root_squash? All you'd have to do is su - su some_other_user cd /home/some_other_user and you have unrestricted access to the some_other_users's files. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to close this hole?