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Re: NFS exporting


From: pjg () acsu buffalo edu (Paul Graham)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 19:54:30 -0400


is it the case that nis/nsf cannot be used safely in a hostile
(university) shared writeable environment (say using recent vintage
sunsOS)?  i've heard that you can secure it and i've heard that you
can't.

-------- perry () imsi com writes:

Opening up NFS or NIS to the net is asking for trouble.

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