On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:34 am, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:

> Squashing root is about all you can do to make NFS safe for the server,
> but it doesn't help much. The problem is that an attacker can set his
> uid to whatever he wants and have access to files owned by that uid. He
> just can't mess with files owned by root.

So are you saying that making modifications to hosts.allow / hosts.deny 
doesn't help any?  Also, from what I have learned, you "export" to IP 
addresses.

Course, seeing what I've seen, I assume these things can be faked.

> > On each client, 128.187.200.251:/home is mounted to /home (I point local
> > users elsewhere)  On user set up, should I use
> > 128.187.200.251:/home/username instead of /home/username?
>
> Will that even work? I don't think it will. You could use autofs if you
> wanted the real location of a user's home to be more agile, but that's
> probably not what you want.

I dunno, that is why I asked.  But I guess since it's been done in fstab, it's 
really pointless even if you could.

-- 
Jacob Albretsen
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