[CLUE-Cert] [Fwd: NFS Security]

[Ski Dawg]

I got this from a Linux security list that I am on and thought it may be
of interest to some (considering our topic of nfs vs samba next week).

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|  LinuxSecurity.com                        Linux Advisory Watch |
|  September 13th, 2002                     Volume 3, Number 37a |
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FEATURE:  NFS Security - NFS (Network File System) is a widely used and
primitive protocol that allows computers to share files over a network.
The main problems with NFS are that it relies on the inherently insecure
UDP protocol, transactions are not encrypted and hosts and users cannot be
easily authenticated. Below we will show a number of issues that one can
follow to heal those security problems.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-118.html 

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-- 
Doug

Registered Linux User #285548
http://counter.li.org
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