Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:16:53 +0300 From: marck@pluscom.cronyx.ru (Dmitry Morozovsky) To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Server, is it secure? Message-ID: <199611151516.SAA07972@pluscom.cronyx.ru>
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Mark Newton wrote: > Well, yes -- NFS is basically never "secure" on any platform. The > NFS protocol was never designed with security in mind. > If you know (or can guess) the NFS filehandle for an NFS filesystem > root then you can spoof the protocol for a start. > Firewall your NFS server: Its services should not be reachable from > the Internet-at-large. Is NFS server with no exports with write permissions vulnerable too? -- Sincerely, D.Marck ======================================================================== === D.Marck --- Dmitry Morozovsky --- marck@rinet.ru --- Wild Woozle === ========================================================================
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