> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:33:47AM +0000, Douglas Maus wrote: > > Is it possible for users (non-root) to mount NFS exports?
Mike Erdely responded: > From mount_nfs(8): > HISTORY > The -P flag historically informed the kernel to use a reserved port > when communicating with clients. In OpenBSD, a reserved port is > always used. > > This means to me that you will always have to be root to use mount_nfs. > Unless I'm missing something. Alright, I'm confused - if you cannot use a reserved port unless you are root, thus you have to be root to use mount_nfs, then why is there a mountd option -P to tell the kernel to use a reserved port? Unless even root needs to tell the kernel not to use a default unreserved port, but rather use a reserved one. Douglas Maus
