That's okay with me.  "secure" hasn't meant anything since the first 
unix on x86 came out, and anyone could be root on their local machine. 
30+ years is a long time to keep a security theater setting, so anything 
that relaxes it is fine with me.
Daniel
On 06/15/2018 09:18 AM, Frank Filz wrote:
 Hmm, should we make a similar change in Ganesha?
 
 On the one hand it seems reasonable, but it may also not be a factor in our
 environments.
 
 Frank
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: linux-nfs-owner(a)vger.kernel.org
 [mailto:linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of J. Bruce Fields
 Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:33 AM
 To: Steve Dickson <steved(a)redhat.com>
 Cc: linux-nfs(a)vger.kernel.org
 Subject: [PATCH] exports: document change to "insecure" export option
 
 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields(a)redhat.com>
 
 We're changing the kernel to allow gss requests from high ports even when
 "secure" is set.
 
 If the change gets backported to distro kernels, the kernel version may be
 an imperfect predictor of the behavior, but I think it's the best we can do.
 
 Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields(a)redhat.com>
 ---
   utils/exportfs/exports.man | 8 +++++---
   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man index
 4f95f3a2197e..e3a16f6b276a 100644
 --- a/utils/exportfs/exports.man
 +++ b/utils/exportfs/exports.man
 @@ -131,10 +131,12 @@ this way are ro, rw, no_root_squash, root_squash, and
 all_squash.
   understands the following export options:
   .TP
   .IR secure
 -This option requires that requests originate on an Internet port less -than
 IPPORT_RESERVED (1024). This option is on by default. To turn it -off,
 specify
 +This option requires that requests not using gss originate on an
 +Internet port less than IPPORT_RESERVED (1024). This option is on by
 default.
 +To turn it off, specify
   .IR insecure .
 +(NOTE: older kernels (before upstream kernel version 4.17) enforced
 +this requirement on gss requests as well.)
   .TP
   .IR rw
   Allow both read and write requests on this NFS volume. The
 --
 2.17.1
 
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