On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:11:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Note that NFS was created (by SUN microsystems) for homogenous networks > > > where all people/computers used same shared password databases (e.g. NIS, > > > formerly known as YP). > > > > > > For this reason is it (was) not safe for environments where anyone (read: > > > admin of each system) can set up any access rights (s)he wants. > > > On 13.10.06 03:55, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Read: if anyone but you has root OR unmonitored physical access to > > his/her machine, then you lose. > > unless you will never execute any program/script on the NFS filesystem > (shared or mounted) and put only shareable files there... Except that even without considering executable binaries and scripts, you still have the possibility that someone can read/write to files which they otherwsie would not permission to. Regarsd, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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