On Saturday 30 March 2002 11:57, you wrote:
May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS.. but a lot of
text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is..
Isn't that what NFS stands for old 'nix joke approaching
No f**îng Security ..
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john in sydney
John Haywood wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 11:57, you wrote:
May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS.. but a lot of
text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is..
Isn't that what NFS stands for old 'nix joke approaching
No f**îng Security ..
John Haywood wrote:
On Saturday 30 March 2002 11:57, you wrote:
May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS.. but a lot of
text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is..
Isn't that what NFS stands for old 'nix joke approaching
No f**îng Security ..
civileme wrote:
It is machine specific rather than user specific, but then mounting the
nfs direectory is normally a root function on the local machine
performing the remote access, This can be controlled (in the sense of
giving non-root users access) on the local machine by editing
I have been looking around.. doesn't look like there is much better
than AFS.. but it needs patching of the Linux kernel, which is a
turnoff, and is not implemented in the standard Mandrake setup. SMB may
also be a consideration.. but having a fstab file with a passwords in
it, with everyone
Hi Everyone,
Just seeing if is there a better Network File system than NFS in the
standard Mandrake 8.2 Linux, something like OpenAFS..
http://www.openafs.org/ it sort of bugs me than anyone can walk up and
plug a notebook in a NFS network and probably connect to it.. Just some
ideas please.
As there is with anything, there are pros and cons to AFS. Meanwhile
I've never used OpenAFS, but I have worked with and have some experience
with AFS.
If implimented, the security of AFS can be very nice, but AFS is not
very stable. It's been known to go down quite often, then closing you
and
