On Friday 01 July 2005 14:01, Zoltan Patay wrote:
> 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.
Depending on how he does the setup it could be the world. So one should pay
attention to some of these small details which can become a problem. I know
most people don't give a hoot. But what you don't know can often hurt you.
Maybe you missed the point where he said he dropped the firewall?
People do silly things.
--Steve Szmidt
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