Re: NFS exporting

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Paul Graham says:
> is it the case that nis/nsf cannot be used safely in a hostile
> (university) shared writeable environment (say using recent vintage
> sunsOS)?  i've heard that you can secure it and i've heard that you
> can't.

If people have access to your lan or another network that packets to
your machine are going over, its very hard to stop them from stealing
NFS file handles. In an environment like the one you describe, the
potential attackers have access to your lan.

Perry

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