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mountd: Stop refusing requests from "unprivileged ports"
authorFrançois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:37:36 +0000 (15:37 +0200)
committerFrançois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:18:54 +0000 (16:18 +0200)
commitce14e737211ad2bf1592b922fb90392abe96d94f
tree860f1186bcb3f49402d1a4edfaae71d5c694e9catree | snapshot
parentba8e7b0b67b16d4c77dac305da86f14dd4ddac14commit | diff
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.
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