On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:26:57PM +0800, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, eric pareja wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Joseph wrote:
> > >
> > > > How do i secure a NFS Server? Is Samber better than NFS?
> >
> > In addition to what Ian mentioned, NFS, which works atop portmap will also
> > benefit from tcp_wrapper which respect the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}
> > files for controlling access to the service. man portmap and man
> > hosts_access document this adequately.
>
> I've also grown to love the ipchains/tables INPUT deny setups in that
> there is no 'connection passing' even done like what tcp_wrappers does.
This is even better since the filtering occurs at the network level
and not at the application level.
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