Okay, PAM is used when there is authentication by users, then. Thanks. I guess I'll follow the NFS How-to.
Thanks. On Friday 19 December 2003 21:17, you wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > I want to setup NFS on my systems so I checked the NFS How-to. However, > > it's dated 8/2002 so I'm wondering how far out of date is it as far a > > security setup, etc. Do we need to worry about hosts.allow and deny or > > does PAM handle that now? I built NFS into the kernel and assume all I > > have to do is install the utilities and then setup the machines as > > servers with the exports, etc. Are there any Gentoo specific guides for > > NFS (I didn't see any in the docs). > > AFAIK, there is no user authentication in NFS, so PAM never comes into the > picture. You are limited to allowing and restricting by host/IP only, which > is where the "insecure" part comes in. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
