> But that's known, the question is: if you export /export (which is just a
> subdir of the / partition), will the client be able to access /etc/passwd by
> passing to the server the inode of /etc/passwd ?
If /export and /etc are both on the root partition, yes: you know / is
a directory with inode number 2, and can proceed from there. NFS is
*not* secure; deal.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]