Re: NFS, password transparency, and security

To: Rob VanFleet <rvf@linux.wku.edu>, debian-security@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NFS, password transparency, and security
From: Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:23:28 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:51:38AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> After doing some reading about it, the only thing that turns me off to
> SFS is that you still have to run the usual NFS services for it to work.
> A large part of the reason I am seeking alternatives is that those
> services are so often vulnerable.

You run those service locally on each machine only.  You don't make them
available to other hosts.

Luca

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