Re: Security issues for nfs mount

To: ioannis@flinet.com
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Security issues for nfs mount
From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:23:03 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 199709120323.UAA02078@fleming.jimpick.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:01:01 EDT." <[🔎] 19970911220101.23430@ohiox>

Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
>   The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the
>  i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy
>  to guess. 

I'm curious.  How would an attack on nfs using this method proceed?

Cheers,

 - Jim

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