Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp Message-ID: <20010514161231.L55013-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> In-Reply-To: <3B003611.E96E8AE1@lmc.ericsson.se>
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > I know I might get flamed for this, but you guys should take a look at > samba. :) The SMB shares are password protected, usually, which means > that they do not (necessarly) rely on client-side authentication, and > allow password encryption. While the idea isn't bad, SMB has enough flaws that I wouldn't use it. Along the same line though, AFS or Coda might be a good option. I believe someone mentioned that at MIT everyone knows the root password to public workstations, but it doesn't do too much good since they auth to the AFS servers to get at files. What especially nice is AFS is free and open now (although I'm not sure what the status is for FreeBSD). I'm not sure if AFS encrypts the data as it passes over the wire (not that SMB does either). -- Matt Piechota Finger piechota@emailempire.com for PGP key AOL IM: cithaeron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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