On 14 Jul 2001 10:30:22 -0500, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Question on NFS. Isn't NFS full of security holes? Aren't there a few
> alternatives with better security measures than NFS? Has anybody ever
> used any of them. I'd like to use such a beast on my home network. Right
> now I use scp and floppies, because my network is connected to the
> internet and I don't any crackers coming in the back door.

Aren't you running on a private subnet usng NAT?  NFS isn't going to
work over that, and it should be secure enough to even run on the
Firewall as long as you specify the interface that's allowed access.
Maybe use (x)inetd to double-lock it.

Or, of course, you could use Samba and make sure the firewall filters
SMB.  Personally I use FTP protected by TCP Wrappers and then disable it
when I'm not working on something.  I used to do the same with Telnet
until I got OpenSSH running (so I could connect from work).