On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:30 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > IMO, NFS/NIS are perfectly suitable for use inside of a LAN. Of cause > > these services impose a certain level on insecurity, but at a certain > > point paranoia has to stop and trust has to start. > > NFS allows anyone who can become root on any machine allowed to > access it (perhaps by booting a Knoppix CD...) to mount and access > anything. Even if you don't permit root access, anyone who is > root locally can pretend to be anyone else. And where is the problem? Anyone with physical access to a box, can become root anywhere. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
