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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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