[732] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] SO_REUSEADDR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon May 20 10:55:10 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: csxsjm@scs.leeds.ac.uk (Sam Mortimer)
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:24:48 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, unfsd@monad.swb.de
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960518171430.16688A-100000@csgi20> from "Sam Mortimer" at May 18, 96 08:10:55 pm
> Doesn't rpc.nfsd want _NOT_ to set SO_REUSEADDR to stop users on
> the server from running their own nfs server and thereby effectively
> gaining root on all client machines?
Definitely.
> Is there a *good* reason why nfsd sets SO_REUSEADDR, or is it just
> so that it can be debugged more easily?
No
