Subject: Re: Diskless Support
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@ksr.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1994 14:42:34
> > > 2. My fileserver (DEC ULTRIX) insists in UNIX-RPC-authentication
> > > for NFS-mounts. I hacked it into the krpc code (anybody
> > > interested? ... mail!).
> > 
> > Yuch.  Is there no way to tell Ultrix to be more friendly?
> No.  I believe i mentioned this before, w.r.t. OSF/1; it does the same
> thing.

The OSF/1 mountd has a -n option to allow non-root requests (which also 
has the effect of allowing AUTH_NULL mountd requests).