Re: nfs insecure_locks / Tru64 behaviour

[Bernd Eckenfels]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:58:40PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Huh? No it doesn't. The Linux NLM server requires that the client
> authenticate using AUTH_SYS (unless you use insecure_locks), but it
> certainly doesn't require you to have root privileges. That would
> violate POSIX locking rules.

Yes, however True64 does not authenticate (properly), thats why you need the
option if you want to do locking.

Gruss
Bernd
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