On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: >On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:52:58 -0500 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >---big snip--- > >> How's that? Does that scare you? Granted, if you run this locally, you >> have the security of your lock and walls... unless you run wireless, and >> that isn't a lot of security anyway. >> > >It's pretty bad, but NFS is one of the more common network aware file systems.
NFS Security isn't great, but it's orders of magnitude better than what passes for security on Windows systems (it would be better if people knew there's no security in Windows rather than putting faith in Microsoft's ``Kindergarten Cryptographers''). NFS security clients is probably no worse than that of the most insecure machine connecting. The biggest reason I think most people use Samba rather than NFS with Windows boxen is that it's generally easier to use, and requires less to configure on the Windows clients. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Our Foreign dealings are an Open Book, generally a Check Book.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
