For god's sake he has 3 computers at home he wants to share file in between!!!
This is not like a campus network or corporate network!
Who is going to gain unauthorized access exploiting an unsecured NFS
setup? His mom/wife/kids? You are unnecessarly discouraging somebody
who is obviously very green here. Please read what the problem is he
is trying to share.
On 7/1/05, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 10:59, jeff wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 June 2005 6:05, calebsr2k wrote:
> > > I would love to know how to use nfs properly.
> >
> > This might be what you are looking for then. :)
> > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/
>
> The only thing to watch out for is that NFS used to be called No File Security
> as it was easy to abuse a NFS connection to gain illegal access.
>
> I've not used it for many many years so I don't know how it may have improved.
> Additionally PAM and SELinux offers added security, so it may not be an issue
> today. But as usual when you open up a service it's a good idea to at least
> do some research on it's issues.
>
> --
>
> Steve Szmidt
>
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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