RFC 2623:NFS Version 2 and Version 3 Security Issu...
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User identifier


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... The AUTH_SYS flavor provides a UNIX-style user identifier, group identifier, and an array of supplemental group identifiers ...


... authentication, the server gets the client's effective user identifier, effective group identifier and supplemental group ...
... For those sites that do not implement a consistent user identifier and group identifier space, NFS ...
... identity mapping is more operating system independent than the user identifier and group identifier mapping in AUTH_SYS. Also, because the authentication ...



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