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Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?



On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has 
> > physical access to NFS client
> > and user B has physical access to nfs client, what prevents user A from 
> > accessing user B's files through VPN?
> 
> File permissions.
>

Even so, you'd have this problem with or without an IPSec VPN. The VPN's
job, in this case, is lower-layer encryption. File systems on your
host/NFS Client are out of the spectrum of what a VPN can do. A VPN is
only going to protect your data from snoopers of NFS packets.

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