Re: server-to-server copy by default

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:03:46PM -0700, dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On 10/20/21 9:33 AM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>2. Security question: with server-to-server copy enabled, you can send
> >>>the server a COPY call with any random address, and the server will
> >>>mount that address, open a file, and read from it.  Is that safe?
> 
> The client already has write access to the share on the destination
> server, it can write any data to the destination file.

Agreed.  Please look back at what I said; I'm not thinking about attacks
on the source server, I'm thinking about attacks on the destination (the
one that receives the COPY).

--b.



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