Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port??

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday April 20, SteveD@redhat.com wrote:
>> Is there any particular reason your staying with portmap
>> instead of moving on to rpcbind? 
> 
> I want distros to include the functionality I want (non-priv users
> cannot remove registrations of non-priv ports registered by priv
> users).  Given the two approaches:
>    - please use newer version of portmap
>    - please dump portmap and use rpcbind
> I suspect the former to be more effective.
Probably... but the latter will need to happen if/when
IPv6 supports is wanted...

> 
> I'm not against moving to rpcbind, it is probably a very good idea.
> But I expect there to be more resistance.
> If everyone goes to rpcbind and no-one uses 'my' portmap, that would
> be fine with me.
Good... and I didn't think you were against anything... I wanted
let you know there was an alternative

> 
>> I (hastily) created two git trees:
>> git://git.infradead.org/~steved/libtirpc.git
>> git://git.infradead.org/~steved/rpcbind.git
>>
>> I think if you take a look, you'll see that
>> this code may not be as mature as the portmap
>> code, but its a much better start... imho..
> 
> Yes, very hasty.  Several #temporary# and back~ files :-)
Yeah... for some reason those temporary files are in the
the tar ball... I'll work to get that cleaned up..

> 
> I notice that it has a concept of who 'owns' a registration, but it
> only works if unix-domain sockets are used for the registration.
> Adding 'superuser' ownership for localhost/privport registrations is
> probably a 3 line patch....
I'm not sure I understand.. are you talking about how getowner()
is being used?

> 
> So: yes.  Full steam ahead on rpcbind.  But short-term I think it is a
> good idea to give portmap a little more life.
I agreed... portmapper will be around for a long while...

steved


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