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Date:      Thu, 2 Apr 1998 06:13:11 -0500
From:      "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
To:        "Anton Voronin" <anton@urc.ac.ru>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is there a safe way for filesystem export?
Message-ID:  <00c401bd5e28$5346e5e0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>

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i'd suggest -maproot=nobody
also, make whatever dir's readonly if possible and nosuid where applicable.

-Alfred

-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Voronin <anton@urc.ac.ru>
To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 1:12 AM
Subject: Is there a safe way for filesystem export?


>Greetings,
>
>I have an application server working under 2.2-STABLE which also exports
>filesystems for workstations which boot by means of netboot from their
local
>DOS-partition. They do not have local unix partitions, except swap, /tmp
and
>/var/tmp  partitions. If the user simply cracks BIOS and boots from FreeBSD
>diskette, he can mount a partition from the server which is exported for
>read/write and not mapping root to nobody, and, say, place there a setuid
file
>that runs shell.
>
>Is there a possibility to authenticate NFS client not only by its
IP-address
>but by some more secure way? Or could it be a subject for further
development
>(if it is not limited by NFS principals)?
>
>--
>Anton Voronin                | Ural Regional Center of FREEnet,
><anton@urc.ac.ru>            | Southern Ural University, Chelyabinsk,
Russia
>http://www.urc.ac.ru/~anton  | Student / programmer / system administrator
>
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