Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Wed Jun 19 01:27:50 AEST 1991


In article <27226 at adm.brl.mil> mike at BRL.MIL ( Mike Muuss) writes:
>NFS is designed as a reliable protocol.

But its caching is all messed up, at least on some of our systems it is.
Moss & I discovered a way for an unprivileged user to exploit this to
browse through data in files that were not supposed to be accessible.



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