Re: [OFFTOPIC] Secure network fileserving Linux <-> Linux

John Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu)
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:17:11 -0400


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> Not possible.
> 1. You pose an unsecured network (anyone can plug in a host)
> 2. Physical access to the hosts (anyone could reconfigure a host)
> 3. No physical security (anyone can get in the room, with unauthorized
> equipment).

Did you consider AFS?

Might be overkill for his environment, but it does do ACLs.

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