From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port?? Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:13:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4623BCD9.3090501@RedHat.com> References: <17950.44333.118970.276558@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Neil Brown Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdVho-00063x-Ti for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:13:36 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HdVhq-0007L1-6S for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:13:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <17950.44333.118970.276558@notabene.brown> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Sorry for the delayed response... Neil Brown wrote: > > But is there some reason that mountd/statd need a priv port that I > haven't thought of? I don't think so... since neither mountd or statd checks to see if the source port is a priv port, its not clear why they should listen on one... steved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs