I just set up an NFS server and set permissions on my shares in /etc/exports, however, it appears that my exports seem to be readable by everyone, which is not what I intended. What could be wrong?

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One thing to check is the /etc/exports file.

Note: The /etc/exports file is sensitive to whitespace. The following statements are not the same due to the space between the option "hostname" and the opening parentheses:

/export/myshare1 hostname(rw)
/export/myshare2 hostname (rw)

The first example grants hostname r...

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