On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Trever Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Samba comes pre-configured in most distributions and the "net usershare" cmd line tool makes filesharing really easy. > Basically, quick, easy, and secure file sharing on Linux is broken. An > alternative is needed, but I'm against removing NFS features. I'm in favor of remove nfs for now, add webdav support and add a secure nfs filesharing.
