On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of > July all as well! > > I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as > backup space. I have NF client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how > secure it really is. > > In the nfsd setup, we specify what clients are allowed to connect, by simply > useing the host name. > > So if in my nfsd configuration, I specify a host called 'ahab' for example, > how does the nfsd authenticate this host, and how secure is it?
I am not certain, but I believe it simply checks the IP-address to see if a host is allowed to connect. As for security, NFS is well-known for *NOT* being secure. Do not use NFS over networks where you don't trust all the machines. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
