Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:30:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question on pcnfsd Message-ID: <199507250700.QAA02035@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950724232634.1311C-100000@unix.nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jul 24, 95 11:27:25 pm
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John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying: > > -n The -n option allows non-root mount requests to be served. This > > should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, that > > require it. > > does this mean that I am having problems because mountd isn't running > with the -n flag yet I am not having problems with mounting from my PC... It means that either you are supplying root authorisation from your client, or your client is faking it. Either is "bad" from a security and safety point of view. > John-Mark -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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