Re: nfsd lacks support for tcp_wrapper

From: Alfred Perlstein (bright@wintelcom.net)
Date: 01/31/01


Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:26:18 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>


* Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> [010130 17:10] wrote:
> Unless we completely missed something, nfsd does lack support for
> tcp_wrapper, doesn't it?
>
> As NFS is a rather critical security-wize this seems like a big omission.
>
> (Many sites, like ours, just cannot avoid using NFS, so it would be nice
> to be able to easily restrict the address range clients are allowed to
> connect from.)
>
> Or are we just missing something?

Missing the fact that nfsd is an in-kernel process and therefore
pretty hard to link against libwrap. Otherwise... i dunno, use
ipfw? :)

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