From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 22 12:38:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA02990 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:38:48 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA02983 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:38:44 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08339; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:37:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:37:56 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502222037.AA08339@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Doug Rabson Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: mountd changes In-Reply-To: References: Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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