<quote who="Keith Hopkins">

> When I run Konqueror as non-root, and try to access non-insecure NFS mount
> points, I get "illegal port" messages on the NFS server (and the mount
> fails) because Konqueror is running as non-root and tries to connect with
> a non-standard (high) port.
> 
> Is there any "safe" way to configure Konqueror so it can start the LAN
> browsing ioslave in priv mode?  Or is the only alternative to set-uid root
> the Konqueror binary?

You can't talk to an NFS server set up like that with any non-root program
in a safe and sensible manner. You can, however, set up the server to accept
connections from unsafe ports. This is pretty reasonable if it's a read-only
share, or you're in a trustable environment... but it's completely unsafe in
most circumstances. :-)

Just add "insecure" to the nfs options list on the server.

- Jeff

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