Subject: Re: devfs (was Re: Not updating device file inode change times)
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-security
Date: 09/08/1998 15:11:52
On Sep 7, Michael C. Richardson wrote
> 
>   Why not make sure that if you allow NFS clients to NFS mount one of your
> disks in a way that means they may have to create files that you put
> "nodev" on the mount options?
>   I'd even go as far as to suggest that "nodev" should be default for
> all but root. 
> [...]

Yes, but SunOS doesn't have this option.
This problem doesn't occur only for NetBSD NFS servers.

Of course, on my NetBSD NFS servers all the exported partitions are mounted
nodev ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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