Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:07:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: jdli@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw (Jian-Da Li) Subject: Re: Re-Export NFS-partition ?! Message-ID: <199603270707.IAA19125@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603270452.MAA29220@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> from "Jian-Da Li" at Mar 27, 96 12:52:58 pm
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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. ;-)
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