No, nfs mounted writable directories are not a security risk, provided
that the ownership and permissions on the higher level directoris are not
compromised. what you also need to do is to make sure that there are some
reasonable limits on the file size for users, so that you don't run out of
space on /home. julius
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:49:30PM +0100, Jo wrote:
> > You also have to think about where to put the user's home directories. Maybe
> > on yet another server on the central LAN?
>
> Isn't that a security risk, having rw mounted NFS directories? If the
> possiblity to login in different classrooms/lans is important, perhaps
> you should use rsync/cron to syncronise /home. Schools are probably a
> rather hostile environment, so security should be a priority.
>
> Since I don't have any experinces of this kind of things, take my
> advices for what they are, speculations.
>
> --
>
> Hans Ekbrand
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