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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a way to export an NFS filesystem? Date: 7 Dec 1995 21:47:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4a7ndo$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49tr39$6c6@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <49vnbe$dig@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: > : In Linux, we have the option '-r' for rpc.nfsd to re-export an imported NFS > : filesystem. > I believe this is what's known as multi-hop NFS, and it's supposed to be > a Bad Thing (tm). I think this violates the export authority of the exporting host. If Linux supports it, i would avoid exporting any NFS file system to a Linux box if i'm concerned about security. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)