On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:24, Kevin Jackson wrote: > NFS/NIS _or_ Security. AFAIK, its always been the two options. > <snip>
> So the problem really resolves around a way of protecting root on the > local system AND still provide NFS-like mounting of remote directories. > These aren't answered by using NIS and NFS alone. As a result, you have things like AFS, SFS and SNFS (still very much in development, http://snfs.cs.plu.edu) which aim to provide secure network filesystems with "true" user level security. -- Nathan Yocom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
