Hi, In the man page for mountd(8), it states that with the "-n" option it would "...not require that clients make mount requests from reserved ports." However, you still can't connect from non-reserved ports because nfsrv_fhtovp() rejects said connections anyway. Some work was done back in 2006 to suppor this, but it got reverted a day later because it "broke a few architectures".
Given that there hasn't been attempts to fix issues in the original patch--that I could tell; I'm not very familiar with the source nor CVS--I propose that the the "-n" option be removed from mountd(8) and its man page, and instead document that connecting from non-reserved ports is not supported, akin to how mount_nfs(8)'s man page mentions that the "-P" option is absent because "[in] OpenBSD, a reserved port is always used." -- Julian Hsiao [email protected]
