There were 2 things wrong with auth flavour ordering:
- Mountd used to advertise AUTH_NULL as the first flavour on
the list, which means that it prefers AUTH_NULL to anything
else (as per RFC 2623 section 2.7).
- Mount.nfs used to scan the returned list in reverse order,
and stopping at the first AUTH_NULL or AUTH_SYS encountered.
If a server advertises (AUTH_SYS, AUTH_NULL), it will by
default choose AUTH_NULL and have degraded access.
I've fixed mount.nfs to scan from the beginning. For mountd,
it does not advertise AUTH_NULL anymore. This is necessary
to avoid backward compatibility issue. If AUTH_NULL appears
in the list, either the new or the old client will choose
that over AUTH_SYS.
Tested the server/client combination against the previous
versions, as well as Solaris and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: bc Wong <bcwong@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>