daniel wrote:
> just a quick hypothetical question:
>
> as i understand it, nfs allows linux boxes to mount another computer's
> directory structure onto the host machine, so my question is:
>
> how stupid/dangerous would it be to run a server from home running nfs so i
> could access it from work?
I've done it--once, 9 years ago, for 10 minutes. (FTP wasn't working, and I
needed to move a file to a server I was maintaining in Bulgaria.)
It's not a good idea, as anyone able to connect to the network in between can
listen to your traffic (see your files) as the traffic goes across the wire.
Even if you protect your server so that only certain clients can send NFS
requests to it, a man-in-the-middle attack could change your IO requests...
Investigate scp (man ssh, man sshd) and winscp (winscp.org) for moving your
files around instead.
Alan
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