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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: secure file transfer [SNFS]
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Nathan Mace wrote:
> i'm tring to find a way to access files that are on my server in a secure
> way.  samba is pain to use, expecially when it's a freebsd server and freebsd
> client.  scp & shh work, but not very well for what i want to do.  what i
> really need is NFS, which works great, but from what i've been reading it's
> not the most secure piece of software.  i've been trying to get the self
> certifying filesystem to work
> (http://www.fs.net/sfs/new-york.lcs.mit.edu:85xq6pznt4mgfvj4mb23x6b8adak55ue/pub/sfswww/index.html)
> but i havn't had any success.  NOTE if anyone knows how to fix the
> authserv.sock error please let me know, i've contacted the mailing list, but
> so far no replies.
>
> so i'm asking you guys.  what do you use when you need a secure NFS-like
> "thing"??  or am i wrong in assuming that NFS is insecure?
>
> please cc me, i'm not a member of the list
>
> nathan

   Linkname: Secure NFS via SSH Tunnel
        URL: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/

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