Re: NIS with local root

From: Nathan Yocom (nate@yocom.org)
Date: 01/31/03

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    From: Nathan Yocom <nate@yocom.org>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: 31 Jan 2003 16:00:41 -0500

    On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:24, Kevin Jackson wrote:

    > NFS/NIS _or_ Security. AFAIK, its always been the two options.
    >
    <snip>

    > So the problem really resolves around a way of protecting root on the
    > local system AND still provide NFS-like mounting of remote directories.
    > These aren't answered by using NIS and NFS alone.

    As a result, you have things like AFS, SFS and SNFS (still very much in
    development, http://snfs.cs.plu.edu) which aim to provide secure network
    filesystems with "true" user level security. 

    -- 
Nathan Yocom <nate@yocom.org>

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