From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xprt_bindresvport
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:45:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050717164541.GC22503@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611308539DC6@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com>
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:02:20AM -0700, Lever, Charles wrote:
> in addition, part of AUTH_SYS security (such as it is) is connecting via
> a privileged port.
>
> a better solution, which trond recently suggested, is to disable
> xprt->resvport for AUTH_GSS-secured transports, but leave the other
> security flavors as they are now.
I'm fine with capping the max port at 1023. I just thought it was
an elegant way to allow admins to dispense with the privport nonsense
altogether, if they want. The alternative would have been a mount
option "noprivports" or similar.
Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-17 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-17 16:02 [PATCH] Fix xprt_bindresvport Lever, Charles
2005-07-17 16:45 ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
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2005-07-11 9:25 Olaf Kirch
2005-07-11 12:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-07-14 16:00 ` Steve Dickson
2005-07-16 7:11 ` Olaf Kirch
2005-07-17 11:36 ` Steve Dickson
2005-07-17 20:49 ` Peter Åstrand
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