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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:45:20 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        David Hedley <hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   NFS exporting...
Message-ID:  <9601092045.AA03495@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15419.821207468@danno>
References:  <15419.821207468@danno>

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<<On Tue, 09 Jan 96 17:11:08 +0000, David Hedley <hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk> said:

> Why does mountd require that only file system mount points can be
> NFS-exported? It seems to want to change some file system flags to reflect
> the fact that it is now exportable, but it's a bit of an annoying
> restriction. Is there some other reason for this behaviour?

Yes.  Security.

-GAWollman

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