On Thursday 01 April 2004 01.39, Clive Menzies wrote: > There are two reasons I use NFS:
There is one reason I'll never use NFS: authentication. NFS 'authenticates' clients by numerical userid *only*, and restricts access by IP address. So, if you manage to take over the IP address of a client, you can mount all exported file system (including write access, if the server allows it for a particular user) without knowing any passwords etc. I'll probably have to set up a file server environment (Linux-only) in autumn, and I guess I'll look into Coda as a filesystems. It's said to be a bitch to set up, unfortunately :-( greets -- vbi -- BOFH excuse #136: Daemons loose in system.
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