Subject: Re: Starting nfs service
To: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/27/2003 20:52:11
> And you want files in /etc/ to NOT be group writable as a matter
> of course. You leave yourself open to easy compromise. all I
> have to do is get on as a user who happens to be in group wheel
> on your machine and I can export whatever I want, however I want.
> That's bad.
Also remember that, since not all systems follow the rules, for NFS over UDP:
- If you export part of a filesystem you allow acces to all of it [1].
- If you allow one system access you give everone access.
- If you give one system write access you give everyone write access.
David
[1] This is true for TCP as well, but is made harder if the inode
generation numbers have been randomised - see fsirand(8).
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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk