Re: NFS, password transparency, and security

[Rob VanFleet <rvf@linux.wku.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> 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.

Sorry if I'm being completely dense here, but aren't the ports still
open, even if they are only serving localhost?

Rob


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