NFS and Backups

[Grant Peel]

Hi all,

Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of
July all as well!

I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as
backup space. I have NF client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how
secure it really is.

In the nfsd setup, we specify what clients are allowed to connect, by simply
useing the host name.

So if in my nfsd configuration, I specify a host called 'ahab' for example,
how does the nfsd authenticate this host, and how secure is it?

-Grant