NFS security
Tom Chmara
tpc at leibniz.UUCP
Sat Aug 13 02:38:42 AEST 1988
Not sure this is a question requiring wizardly knowledge, but I have
been informed that NFS is NOT particularly secure; i.e. "root"
on one machine can wreak havoc on another (I'm not speaking of
removing files from a r-w directory etc). The speaker was not
overly clear about what the hole was, but he smugly assured me that
he could do much as he pleased if I were to allow him NFS access from
a machine on which he was root. Is this a problem with NFS, or
with the HP or Apollo versions of NFS?
Thanks...
---tpc---
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