On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Radovan Garabik wrote:
[...]
> >
> > It may be a different question but can the machine name
> > be played with? Can this have an affect to the name of the
> > machine itself or only directories and filenames?
> >
>
> that is up to DNS - well, tricks like naming your www server
> "www.оnlinebanking.com" where the first "o" is cyrillic and
> tricking clients into thinking they are entering their passwords
> into secure and genuine "www.onlinebanking.com" are very real, and
> already used even with ASCII names - see the linux kernel mailing list
> discussion about [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not transmeta) address.
This problem may not be quite like that. While cyrillic
letters could be checked by analizing the text, with
composing characters we are at the mercy of the implementation
of the NFS server and client - unless a specific normalization
method is implemented on both sides.
gaspar
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