[6143] in RedHat Linux List
Re: How secure is NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hagopian)
Tue Nov 26 00:45:30 1996
From: Rob Hagopian <Rob.Hagopian@vuser.vu.union.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:27:26 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961125225647.24027A-100000@helix.cs.cuc.edu> from "Elliot Lee" at Nov 25, 96 11:11:31 pm
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> They are; it's not that impossibly hard, especially if you have an account
> on the target computer. This again is not Red Hat or even Linux specific,
> it's just the fault of NFS's broken design.
>
> That's what TCP Wrappers are for - use them :)
I'd be interested to hear of vulnerabilities you know of... I was under the
impression that for two computers, their network being bridged from the rest
of the world, sharing the same passwd & group files, NFS was pretty secure.
(one /etc/exports /users (rw,no_root_squash,secure) to the other...)
TIA!
-Rob H.
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