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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:16:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS security issue...
Message-ID:  <199703121916.UAA23339@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <9703121532.AA18955@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Mar 12, 97 10:32:48 am"

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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:25:11 -0500, I wrote:
> 
> > Except, of course, that it doesn't belong under net, it belongs under
> > [v]fs.nfs.  At this point, you may want to fix P-HK's breakage of
> > sysctl variables for LKM filesystems.
> 
> One thing I forgot to mention...
> 
> I am right now contemplating changing the socket interface to pass
> user credentials down to pru_bind().  This could be used, for example,
> to provide a more sophisticated access-control model for local port
> numbers (like blocking user attempts to bind to port 2049).  Hopefully
> we can get rid of SS_PRIV completely...
> 

the local hackery is just an example. The same check for reserved ports also
holds for non-local nfs requests.

-Guido



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