Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 14:09:44 primm wrote: > >> I'm now reading that Linux nfs which I installed by yast all by myself is >> also a security risk. >> > > It is a security risk in that it's not encrypted. > > Another problem is that the nfs server in versions 3 and below fully trusts > the client about user IDs. It won't put viruses on your machines, but it does > mean that if you don't control the root account on all machines, anyone can > read any file, or write to any share. > > I thought the purpose of root squash was to prevent that.
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