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Hack:   Accessing NFS
Subject:   Unprivileged Ports
Date:   2004-07-02 04:13:22
From:   davidoc
If you have control of the server you are attempting to connect to, it may be possible to have it accept connections from unprivileged ports. To do this edit /etc/exports and include the "insecure" option. For example:




/var/export 10.0.0.0/24(rw,insecure)


This is tested on Linux. For more information see man exports on the NFS server.
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  • Unprivileged Ports
    2005-06-18 15:44:11  Kichigai [Reply | View]

    Ahh, yes, I discovered that too, but I also discovered a major drawback to using the insecure option: Read-Only access. Sure, if you're putting up certain stuff that you don't want people to mess with, it's nice and convinient, but if you want to manipulate the data on your server...
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