From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 23:44:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA12502 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 23:44:48 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA12496 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 23:44:46 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA02035; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:30:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507250700.QAA02035@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A question on pcnfsd To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:30:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jul 24, 95 11:27:25 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 936 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[