Re: There's something about hardening NFS?

From: dominique.pasquier@mckesson.ca
Date: 08/14/02 

To: "Orlando Diaz,TRI" <ODiaz@tricom.com.do>
From: dominique.pasquier@mckesson.ca
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:48:47 -0400

>A post about hardening NIS+ it makes me think if any of you know some
>document about hardening NFS on SunOS.

You could try NFS over SSH

something like
#ssh user@myserver -L 3069:localhost:2049 -N &
#mount nfs://localhost:3069/export/home /here

you just require that NFS does accept unsecure port (care if you use BSM)

regards 

--

Dominique

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