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Re: NFS exporting
From: perry () snark imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 06:53:09 -0400
Paul Graham says:
is it the case that nis/nsf cannot be used safely in a hostile (university) shared writeable environment (say using recent vintage sunsOS)? i've heard that you can secure it and i've heard that you can't.
If people have access to your lan or another network that packets to your machine are going over, its very hard to stop them from stealing NFS file handles. In an environment like the one you describe, the potential attackers have access to your lan. Perry
Current thread:
- NFS exporting Scott D. Yelich (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Mike Evans (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Aggelos D. Keromitis (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Michael Neuman (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Paul Graham (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 15)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NFS exporting smb () research att com (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Carl Corey (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Rob Quinn (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Aggelos D. Keromitis (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Steve Simmons (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)