Re: access control for mountd, statd, and lockd?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tls%panix.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:35:19PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>> I suspect that the others need their own libwrap support and/or a -p option.

>I don't see how a -p option could work with standard RPC clients.

Like with mountd that's not a problem. The port is allocated by
the RPC server itself and only registered with portmap to be queried
by RPC clients. If the RPC server choses a fixed port this just works.

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