FC5, Firefox, NFS /home

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:30 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > IMO, NFS/NIS are perfectly suitable for use inside of a LAN. Of cause
> > these services impose a certain level on insecurity, but at a certain
> > point paranoia has to stop and trust has to start.
> 
> NFS allows anyone who can become root on any machine allowed to
> access it (perhaps by booting a Knoppix CD...) to mount and access
> anything.  Even if you don't permit root access, anyone who is
> root locally can pretend to be anyone else.
And where is the problem? Anyone with physical access to a box, can
become root anywhere.

Ralf