From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 14 13:33:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (imr2.ericy.com [12.34.240.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2997437B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 13:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5att.ericy.com [138.85.92.13]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EKXI824896 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EKPnO24865 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:25:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f4EKPlG00093 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:25:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:25:46 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JQDZQBS4; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:25:33 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" Reply-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B003F3B.906F3802@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:25:31 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp References: <20010514161231.L55013-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Piechota wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > > > I know I might get flamed for this, but you guys should take a look at > > samba. :) The SMB shares are password protected, usually, which means > > that they do not (necessarly) rely on client-side authentication, and > > allow password encryption. > > While the idea isn't bad, SMB has enough flaws that I wouldn't use it. I wasn't aware of that. Flaws in the implementation or in the design? I thought samba was pretty well written, but I guess this is compared to their Windows counterpart. ;) > Along the same line though, AFS or Coda might be a good option. Yes, I considered that too. However, it seems the ports collection only features a AFS client, and no server. Again, correct me if I'm wrong! A. -- La sémantique est la gravité de l'abstraction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message