From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 08:32:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2586E16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:32:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4782643D53 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:32:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 8 Apr 2005 09:32:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:31:58 +0100 From: David Malone To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050408083158.GA70423@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20050407204747.GP64927@dan.emsphone.com> <20050407212821.GA49406@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050407212821.GA49406@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: bob@a1poweruser.com cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: nfsiod tasks started in error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:32:04 -0000 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0400, bob@a1poweruser.com wrote: > > Plan and simple. It's a security hole. > > OK, you've changed your mind; last time you were claiming it was a > waste of resources. And, FWIW, I don't believe having nfsiod running is likely to be a security hole in the way people might think, as nfsiod doesn't open any network connections/ports/whatever unless you're actually acting as an NFS client. David.