nfsiod tasks started in error

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Fri Apr 8 01:32:04 PDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

And, FWIW, I don't believe having nfsiod running is likely to be a
security hole in the way people might think, as nfsiod doesn't open
any network connections/ports/whatever unless you're actually acting
as an NFS client.

	David.


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