Root Squash - what does it mean - Synology Community
community.synology.com › enu › forumAug 01, 2011 · root squash This is a security feature that denies the super user on the specified hosts any special access rights by mapping requests from uid 0 on the client to uid 65534 (-2) on the server. This uid should be associated with the user nobody. In other words, it means that even if you mount a NFS directory being 'root' on your Unix/Linux PC,