[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Winston <wbe at psr.com> writes:
> For the purpose of the NFS vulnerability in 9.0-RELEASE, does it make
> any difference whether one has used /etc/exports and an explicitly
> started nfsd, or exported the files using "zfs set sharenfs={options}"
> if the exported file system in both cases is ZFS?  (That's probably
> similar to asking whether ZFS has its own NFSd code or uses
> /usr/sbin/nfsd.)

ZFS does not have its own NFSD.  What happens when you set sharenfs on a
dataset is that it updates /etc/zfs/exports and HUPs mountd.

DES
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