NFS and security

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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: NFS and security
Hopefully they're not directly connected to the Internet. Setup a
firewall/router between your boxes and the Internet to block all incoming
connections initiated from the outside, and you should be fine.
~M


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, MCR wrote:

>    In the near future I am going to be connecting two
> linux boxes together, workstation to file server.  The
> only way I know of to do this is to use NFS.  However,
> everytime I read something about NFS it states how
> insecure it is.  Is there a way to do this that is
> more secure than NFS, or are there procedures to make
> NFS more secure?  They will connect to the internet
> shortly after being set-up, so I am concerned about
> the security issue.
>                                  mike

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