Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> Back in my youth, the wise men told me that NFS was a horrible security
> threat unless you also used YP, which was too sophisticated for me to
> ever figure out. So these days I use sshfs, which is nice, but slower
> than a turtle dragging a railroad engine.
>
> Is NFS still a security problem? Does it still have that issue where
> you never knew what port it would listen on? Do you still need YP,and
> is YP as monumentally difficult as I remember it being?
>
> Are a lot of you using NFS? Do you feel safe doing so?

At my last place I used NFS to share a mailstore between several mail servers - no problems. It was quite a few years ago that I set it up, and I no longer have access to the systems since they made me redundant, but I'm sure I nailed it down to fixed ports.