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Re: another netinfo security question

Subject: Re: another netinfo security question
From: Luke Howard <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:17:50 +1000
Organization: PADL Software Pty Ltd
Versions: dmail (bsd44) 2.2g/makemail 2.9a

>There is a simplifying assumption in this: that systems with NetInfo
>databases other than "local" intend to make them available over the
>network. Removing that restriction would require a bit of work in
>nibindd and some more logic in the startup scripts to decide if portmap
>was required. Another thing that would be useful would be a command
>line option for nibindd allowing one to specify its port number(s).
>Both of these changes would be relatively easy, and are left as an
>exercise for the developer :-) Seriously, if anyone has the need to do
>this I'll be happy to help point out where the changes would need to go
>in nibindd, and would be happy to push the changes back into the netinfo
>sources.

These were added to nibindd on 16 Sep 2000. Please see the
lukeh-RPCSEC_GSS branch of nibindd.

eg.

# nibindd -U 650 -T 650

-- Luke

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