From: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NLM lock failover
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:27:59 -0400
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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:27 +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:55, Wendy Cheng wrote:
> > o The nfs-utils config flag RESTRICTED_STATD must be off for NLM
> >   failover to be functional correctly.
> 
> That would reopen this ancient security hole:
> 
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-05-statd-automountd.html
> 
> which might not be the best of ideas.
> 

ok, thanks ! I'll look into this. But I believe nfs-utils-1.0.8-rc4 has
this off by default ?

-- Wendy


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