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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:46:11 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        compland@ism.com.br (Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure NFS
Message-ID:  <9607032046.AA09843@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607032029.NAA11155@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199607031840.PAA21776@unix1.ism.com.br> <199607032029.NAA11155@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:29:33 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:

>> Is it possible to set portmon variable, like in SunOS, in Freebsd to
>> watch out the NFS mounts, forcing the request to come from a privileged port ?
>> It's possible to set secure NFS in Freebsd ?

> This is the default.  You must use -n to disable it (man mountd).

Of course, this really has nothing to do with security, it's just a
stupid restriction on Sun's part to paper over the fact that standard
NFS isn't secure.

-GAWollman

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