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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS as anonymous user Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 23:58:47 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: <815875127.11705@pencotts.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951108102041.42992A-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: strippe@dsu2.deltast.edu X-URL: news:Pine.A32.3.91.951108102041.42992A-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Stacy Trippe <strippe@dsu2.deltast.edu> wrote: >Can someone tell me how to configure FreeBSD to allow "anonymous" NFS logins? If you mean, for example, using PCNFS with the default uid of -2, then you can't do it just by configuration. If you really want this, you will have to modify mountd which explicitly tests for -2 and forbids it. (in 2.0.5R, src/sbin/mountd/mountd.c line 355) But why not just set up an additional user account (with no password) and let people mount under that ID instead? If security was an issue, you wouldn't be allowing anonymous mounts in the first place...