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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:15:29 -0500
From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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Cc: John Koenig <jfkoenig@vipb.com>
Subject: Re: NFS request from unprivileged port ?
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On Wed, 22 May 2002 03:25:04 -0700
John Koenig <jfkoenig@vipb.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> May 22 00:40:30 skiddy /kernel: NFS request from unprivileged port (192.168.1.123:49458)
> 
> 
> I started getting this in the messages log of my FreeBSD 4.4 box. 
> I was attempting to enable a new client to access an nfs mount point.
> The mount point is functional with Linux nfs client; so I know nfs server is working.
> What might this indicate on the client side?
> 
> thanks!
> J

In NFS Servers /etc/rc.conf set:

weak_mountd_authentication="NO"

to:

weak_mountd_authentication="YES"

NFS client is connecting from a port above 1024 IIRC.

HTH

Stephen Hilton


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