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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: BSD on SUN-3?
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:25:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bxo0Er.5EF@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <1992Nov12.104709.11414@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
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- In <1992Nov12.104709.11414@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell) writes:
- >Please does anybody know if there are any plans afoot to adapt
- >the BSD system to either SUN-3 or HP-9000/800 series machines?
-
- A port for the HP machines has already been done. CSRG works almost
- exclusively on HP-86k machines these days. For the Sun-3 a separate
- port would have to be done, although one could use large parts of the
- HP and upcoming SPARC port.
-
- >I would like to be able to read some of the man pages, but when
- >I try to run them through nroff, I get garbage. Please, what
- >would be the way to format these for teletype? or V100? or
- >X terminal?
-
- nroff -mdoc ?
-
- >My colleagues are much concerned
- >about the security risk posed by the use of NFS. Would it seem
- >reasonable to use the BSD version of nfsd on a machine running
- >sun-OS 3? The idea is that BSD nfsd can be told to accept calls
- >only from specified I-net addresses, but can it interact with
- >the Sun kernel? I know that any competent hacker can forge an
- >address, but it would seem difficult to do this if you are the
- >wrong side of a router, and anyway, the BSD nfsd ought to be
- >more secure than the existing nfsd which (I believe) accepts
- >calls from anywhere.
-
- I haven't looked at the nfsd sources. But, depending on how much work
- is done in the user process and how much in the kernel process this
- may be easier to accomplish or not.
-
- >We would really like to be able to use the BSD code for secure
- >rpc but this would seem to require a composite kernel containing
- >a mixture of BSD code for rpc and SUN-OS code for everything else.
- >Is such a beast possible? Please has anybody any suggestions how
- >one might attempt it?
-
- This may actually be easier, since you have complete control over the
- NFS and RPC subsystems. Basically one has to port the BSD sources to
- the Sun kernel.
-
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
-
- AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem.
- IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
-