HPUX NFS Security

[Daniel Xu]

I have my NFS server on HPUX 10.20. It uses only udp port 2049. Can anyone please give me a guidance how to upgrade me NFS in HPUX 10.20?
Plus my /etc/exports lists exceeds 256 characters. I have to allow all my HP hosts to mount this server. How do I trim the file to make it shorter?
Thanks in advance!

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

If you want to allow all you machines to nfs mount something just put the mount point name in the /etc/exports file. for example :-

#cat /etc/exports
/home
/disk2 -ro

Is mine.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

try to load the patch PHNE_21108
thats the NFS Kernel General Rel & Perf Patch which includes NFS V3
After installation you have to edit the /etc/rc.confid.d/nfsconf where there are new variables which controlls the NFS behavior:
MOUNTD_VER=(2|3)
also you can enable the new automount feature with:
AUTOFS=1

If you don't see these new variables take a look at /usr/newconfig/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Greetings

Andrew

[Rick Garland]

NFS v3 will use tcp as opposed to udp. I believe there is a patch available for this upgrade.