From: Tom Haynes Subject: Re: Bug in server's export -- List of security flavors Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:25:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4A5F7EA9.9050309@excfb.com> References: <4A5F5C4C.3070308@excfb.com> <20090716185642.GB2495@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.240.46]:51337 "EHLO eastrmmtao104.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932439AbZGPTZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:25:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090716185642.GB2495@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I don't see how it could be a problem for the client to try an > unadvertised flavor. The server has to enforce the choice of flavor > anyway. > Yes, the server needs to enforce it, but why is the client trying a flavor that the server says it does not support? > (Um, but that's pretty weird that the server's advertising an empty > list. What's the nfs-utils version?) > > [tdh@adept root]> yum list nfs-utils Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit updates/metalink | 2.9 kB 00:00 updates | 4.4 kB 00:00 Installed Packages nfs-utils.i586 1:1.1.5-6.fc11 installed