On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 07:45:09 pm Markus Slopianka wrote: > Just for the record: I'm totally in favor of removing NFS support. > In its current form it's a security risk. root rights? No way! > IIRC NFS is also no encrypted, making it easy to intercept file > transmissions. NFS can be encrypted with kerberos. Without kerberos, nfs is super easy to configure. Samba is (often) a huge headache to configure compared to nfs, but is a bit more secure.
Basically, quick, easy, and secure file sharing on Linux is broken. An alternative is needed, but I'm against removing NFS features. > > Unless no one of those people who wish the feature to stay actually fix its > problems, it's better to remove it. They or someone else may re-add the > feature in a secure way later. > > Marus > > On Tuesday 28 December 2010 15:06:13 Rodrigo Belém wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I've been working on kubuntu team to update the samba file sharing > > code and code is already in trunk :-) I have another patch that > > updates the kdenetwork/filesharing, but it removes all the nfs code, > > which needs root privileges. Are you ok with this change or do you > > want keep the nfs support? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Rodrigo Belem.
