git: mountd: Stop refusing requests from "unprivileged ports"
Francois Tigeot
ftigeot at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Wed Jun 11 07:20:00 PDT 2014
commit ce14e737211ad2bf1592b922fb90392abe96d94f
Author: François Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org>
Date: Wed Jun 11 15:37:36 2014 +0200
mountd: Stop refusing requests from "unprivileged ports"
* Security by "privileged ports" is a joke. We don't live in the 1980s
anymore and everybody can be root on her/his own machine.
* Some mount requests made by super-users on client DragonFly machines
were done on "unprivileged ports" anyway, possibly due to ephemeral
port exhaustion.
* Disabling this mechanism by default thus makes DragonFly NFS servers
more reliable.
Summary of changes:
sbin/mountd/mountd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/ce14e737211ad2bf1592b922fb90392abe96d94f
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