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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: mountd/portmap/NFS problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.205630.21589@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:56:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.181052.10725@u.washington.edu> ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) writes:
- >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >
- >>Install the NFS and mount patches at the very least. You seem to be running
- >>into the overlap and reserved port problems.
- >
- >Terry & Luigi, I had the same problem recently. I chased it down to an
- >export problem on the file system thatbsd was trying to mount. My memory
- >on the net says "386bsd doesn't do secure NFS mount". Is that true? I
- >changed my /etc/exports file of the "host system" from:
- >
- >/users dragon
- >to:
- >/users
- >
- >and everything now works fine! Just my $0.02 worth ...Mark
-
- Right. This is because the NFS when running "secure" expects "vouchsafe"
- identification (ie: a connection from a reserved port to indicate the NFS
- client is being run by root instead of being a user process that pretends
- to be an NFS client). The "vouchsafe" is done by ensuring the remote client
- is run as root by requiring a reserved port (which only root can allocate).
-
- There is also an "overlap" problem where you can't export both "/" and
- "/usr" if they aren't seperate file systems.
-
- In theory, these are both fixed with the patchkit (works for me, anyway).
- There's also some AIX 3.2 client stuff that's a pretty bizarre
- interpretation of the RFC's, but this only applies to allowing remote
- mounts by AIX 3.2 boxes of partitions exported from 386BSD.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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