"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftp on freedesktop.org?

[Derek Fawcus]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:53:04AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> I'm much more comfortable with our current policy of having only 'nobody'
> daemons talking on network ports -- the ftp daemon I was looking at is
> 'oftpd' which supports only anonymous ftp and switches to 'nobody' before
> accepting any FTP connections.  We've also hacked cvs pserver to start as
> nobody.
> 
> If there was a user-mode NFS server which could run as 'nobody', perhaps 

Well if all that is required is read only access,  one could dig up the old
user mode NFS server that Linux used to use,  and hack it about.

DF