From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 26 23:44:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA03786 for current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03733 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA12444; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:43:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA29383; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:43:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id IAA19125; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:07:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603270707.IAA19125@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Re-Export NFS-partition ?! To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:07:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: jdli@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw (Jian-Da Li) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603270452.MAA29220@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> from "Jian-Da Li" at Mar 27, 96 12:52:58 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jian-Da Li wrote: > Errr...I knew it..... :) > How about export NFS partitions from a machine behind the firewall ?! > :) Convince the firewall operator the only use of this thing is to annoy the users, so it should be killed. :) (While it's not very difficult in theory to NFS-reexport a file system -- Linux can do it --, most of us believe that it would violate the original idea of an NFS export list maintained at the server. Alas, Sun was never very good in considering security issues.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)