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Re: AFS - The Ultimate Sulution? -- What is the point?


From: "マグロ原子" <atoom.tonijn () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:32:49 +0200

In-Reply-To: <4509C2FE.8020104 () observed de>

I don't really see the point... Possible vulnerabilities (if I didn't
horribly misunderstand something):

*The AFS server would still need to be updated to keep it secure.
*If the imaged OS is rootable:
**The AFS clients that load the images could be replaced by phishnets.
**The attacker could pose as the user having access to Kerberos
credentials. (So rm -r / would delete the users "securely kept files")

Or do users only have read-only access to their files?? That doesn't
seem useful.

Nyoro~n

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