Thanks.  I'll read the article.

> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Jerry, what do we need to look out for as far as security goes for NFS
>> systems?  I was of the understanding NFS can have security problems.
>> 
>> 
> 
> If it's firewalled, the only security concern is internal. If you open the
> firewall up for access by clients across the network, you open yourself
> for all kinds of trouble as NFS transactions are totally "in the clear".
> And I got news for you... samba ain't much better. :')
> 
> NFS falls easy victim to any hacker that can sniff a packet and arrange a
> spoof attack.
> 
> I found a wonderfully content rich article covering the fine points of
> hardening your NFS connections via ssh at Sys Admin Magazine...

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