I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NFS client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how secure it really is.
NFS is not secure at all. If you don't trust the local subnet, don't use NFS there. Certainly don't use NFS across the Internet, unless using a secure tunnelling/VPN protocol....
So if in my nfsd configuration, I specify a host called 'ahab' for example, how does the nfsd authenticate this host, and how secure is it?
NFS doesn't authenticate the host. NFS trusts the resolver when reversing the IP addr into a hostname.
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