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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!rhbnc!csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk!markd From: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell) Subject: BSD on SUN-3? Message-ID: <1992Nov12.104709.11414@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> Lines: 36 Sender: news@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk Reply-To: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell) Organization: RHBNC Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:47:09 GMT 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? My reason for asking is that SUN have withdrawn support and it seems that HP are about to do the same. I do appreciate that it would be a very difficult thing to adapt BSD to any new machine. Even to get BSD Make working is difficult because it wants to #include several machine-specific header files, all of which must be created for the target machine: I have done this (maybe with errors) the program compiles but I get several 'undefined function' errors at the link stage. 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? 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. 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? Thank you, mark