Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:37:56 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: mountd changes Message-ID: <9502222037.AA08339@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950222133611.8409A-100000@minnow.render.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950222133611.8409A-100000@minnow.render.com>
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<<On Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:40:32 +0000 (GMT), Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> said: > I have some changes here for mountd which do two things: > (1) Stop it from moaning when more than one mountpoint in a given > filesystem is exported. > I am wondering whether to commit these. (1) is probably safe but (2) > might be a security risk. Comments? `mountd' is right to moan, since NFS access control is not supported except on a per-mount-point basis, so allowing access to any other directory under a mount point is tantamount to allowing access to all of them. You might as well just use `-alldirs'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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