Subject: Re: NFS and reserved ports
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/24/1997 15:20:18
Quoting Frank van der Linden,
> a) Decoupling the mount/unmount requests from the later NFS operations
> again, and reinstating the '-n' flag to the mountd? This would
> have the rather strange effect that you can configure your system
> to allow mounts from non-reserved ports, but that subsequent
> operations will fail anyway because they come from non-reserved
> ports.
> b) Adding a new option to the mountd which says "Always require
> reserved ports for mount requests, regardless of the usage of
> -noresport".
Replying to myself here, I should add a 3rd option:
c) Having another option besides '-noresport' in the exports file,
which controls the mount protocol. So you will have -noresport
control the NFS RPC requests, and something else, say
-noresmnt, control the mount RPC requests. This is perhaps
the most flexible way, as it allows you to control everything
in one place, and per filesystem/host combination.
- Frank