On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:26:22PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > Doesn't this open you up to the world of evil that is NFS security?
> 
> Not if you restricted it to localhost.  NFS uses a priveleged
> port, and ordinary users can't sniff the lo interface, so
> I don't see a way offhand to simulate a client or eavesdrop
> on other clients from localhost.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something...

You missed the network transparency is all.  ;)  As that was not part of
the specification of lufs, it'd work fine to emulate NFS.

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