(ro, root_squash)?? What's better for my network then? NFS seems to offer me better performance over SMB. I don't know why though.
Seriously curious, Mr O. --- Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's just me, but I'm surprised that nfs is so widely > used. It > seems to be very insecure for an internal lan. The "security" > I see it > using is host based and client uid based. Neither of which > are good > internal security. Is this all nfs can do? I can imagine > evil_cracker > from plugging in his laptop configured with an allowed IP and > his > username as my uid and mounting rw network shares. At least > smbfs/smbmount authenticates with a password, even if it is > transfered > using an insecure protocol. > > Sheesh, putting ipsec on every machine and using opportunistic > encryption internally seems more and more attractive and worth > the > setup. > > Cory __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
