I am very new to NFS. I would like to make sure I am clear.

If the NFS server shares a directory rw,, and all the files in the directory are permissions 700 and user/group for those files is root/root,,,

On the client you would have to log in as root to see it. Is this correct?

I am aware that a non root user on the client could make a direct connection to override this. (as in don't use the mount, just use an NFS client hack.)

It really seems like anyone who has access to the client machine should have access to the files and that the client machine should be ignoring permissions. Only the server should handle permissions.

Am I correct in my understanding? Is it normal to have this type of layout? Is there a way to ignore the permissions on the client side?