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Autor: Didier Kryn
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] NFS: was mounting /usr
Le 04/12/2017 à 20:30, Steve Litt a écrit :
> 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?


    I heard that YP aka NIS was a horrible security threat. NFS is
certainly not very secure either. But nobody considers establishing the
NFS connection across the world-wide Internet; it is always on a LAN
and, given this, I don't see how it can be insecure.

        Didier