nfsiod tasks started in error

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Apr 7 14:28:22 PDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0400, bob at a1poweruser.com wrote:

> Plan and simple. It's a security hole.

OK, you've changed your mind; last time you were claiming it was a
waste of resources.

> If no nfs is selected in
> sysinstall then there should not be any nfs stuff started at all.

It's in the default kernel, and killing the kernel nfsiod threads will
not disable NFS support.

If you think NFS support is a security hole, remove it from your
kernel and recompile.

Kris
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