NFS and Backups

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> 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?

I am not certain, but I believe it simply checks the IP-address to see
if a host is allowed to connect. 
As for security, NFS is well-known for *NOT* being secure.
Do not use NFS over networks where you don't trust all the machines.



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Erik Trulsson
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