Manually Mount local/remote CDROM in Sun Solaris

April 29, 2008 · Filed Under General · Comment 


The Volume Manager (vold) daemon in Sun Solaris will automatically detect and mount a CDROM when inserted on Sun Solaris under /cdrom (if CD is not labelled )or /cdrom/<label> where <label> is the label of the CD

In instances where vold is not running or when there is a need to manually mount the CDROM the following the procedure should help.

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NFS Security – nfs_portmon to restrict client source port to privileged ports

January 24, 2008 · Filed Under security · Comment 

Network File System (NFS) security in Sun Solaris can be enhanced by restricting the source ports for the client connections for NFS to be only privileged ports. The privileged port range is from 512 to 1023. Enabling this security feature for NFS in solaris, checks if the source ports from the clients from privilege ports. This prevents malicious users from gaining access to files exported/shared by the NFS server by preventing custom RPC based scripts or applications being used on unprivileged ports.

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