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Re: CERT, about NFS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Mitchell)
Thu Dec 22 09:24:37 1994

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 94 12:53:57 GMT
From: Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
To: bugtraq@fc.net

>>          1. Do *not* self-reference an NFS server in its own exports file.
>>          2. Do not allow the exports file to contain a "localhost" entry.

If a fileystem is exported to a netgroup, and that netgroup includes
the local host (ie the name of the host, not "localhost", then does this
count as self-reference?


Dave.

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