Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!leibniz!tpc
From: tpc@leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NFS security
Keywords: root mount NFS
Message-ID: <126@leibniz.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 88 16:38:42 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, CANADA
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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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