Hi Keith
On 21/08/10 22:44, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:15 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
The ability of a user on a client with root access being able to gain
access to other users' files on an NFS server seemed like a fundamental
problem when I was making this same
A correction to my last post: if you were using a network filesystem with
remote authentication - for example, Samba/CIFS - it would be possible to
prevent the local user with root access from accessing others' files on
the server.
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On 22/08/10 19:50, Keith Edmunds wrote:
A correction to my last post: if you were using a network filesystem with
remote authentication - for example, Samba/CIFS - it would be possible to
prevent the local user with root access from accessing others' files on
the server.
That was my point. It
On 22/08/10 22:10, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
That was my point. It seems anyone could plug a computer to which they
have root access (eg a notebook brought in from home) into a network
and with knowledge of UID's and GID's with NFS shares on a server they
have full access to those.
If
Hi John,
If the server was willing to export to their IP address, then I
think you're right. Or if they could turn off a machine that was
exported to, and then use its IP address...
Any decent sysadmin would know the security risks and know how to
prevent root access. Allowing an
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:15 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
The ability of a user on a client with root access being able to gain
access to other users' files on an NFS server seemed like a fundamental
problem when I was making this same decision. With SMB you have got much
better
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