Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-14 Thread ioannis
:-) In this case you may as well post your root passwd in Yahoo. On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 09:02:59PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs > the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may > read fi

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in m

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread ioannis
I could resist to your request, Jim, and appear before you with further clarifications, for you are an active contributor in the Debian project and we are quite fortunate to have you here among us; moreover, there in an ancient saying, that "hard is the knowledge of the good." And the kn

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread Jim Pick
Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the > i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy > to guess. I'm curious. How would an attack on nfs using this method proceed? Cheers, - Jim pgpYNozTVDntA.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread ioannis
The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy to guess. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread Jim Pick
> Hi, > > I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let > another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my > machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > George I d

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi, > > I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let > another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my > machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The only problem I can think of is that root-squash may not be enough (an attacker may still re

Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George --