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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Linux w/ local admin mounting nfs drives securely? Post 302225688 by Frostybeard on Saturday 16th of August 2008 12:50:50 PM
Old 08-16-2008
Linux w/ local admin mounting nfs drives securely?
Got a situation where some people in the network using Linux would like local admin rights. People have admin rights in Windows and the Linux users want more flexibility.

They need to be able to mount some nfs drives.

If they have local admin rights, even with root squash set for the nfs server, there is a danger that someone could change their UserID to something else and mount into someone else's home directory. If that someone else happens to have root access, ...

Is there any way to securely give someone local admin rights on their box and let them mount some NFS drives without this risk?
 

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users-admin

users-admin(1)						      General Commands Manual						    users-admin(1)

NAME

       users-admin - Users Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       users-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.

OPTIONS

       users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       users-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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