Re: FreeBSD NFSv4 server: -sec=none / AUTH_NONE supported?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM Cedric Blancher
<cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 at 15:30, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM Cedric Blancher
> > <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good morning!
> > >
> > > Does the FreeBSD 14 NFSv4 server support -sec=none / AUTH_NONE
> > > supported, i.e. for ftp archives etc?
> > Nope. Not at this time, rick
>
> I've only seen client side patches for libtirpc, which just swaped out
> auth_sys(uid, gid) with auth_none() (no arguments!) ... this should
> not be too hard on the server side, right?
Not too much work. Basically adding a flag on the export related structure
assigned to an RPC being processed for it and checking that flag at the
appropriate times.

To be honest, until now, no one has asked for it.

As such, it might be in 15.1. (I think it can be done during a minor
release update.)

rick

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