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Free Software Magazine: Securing NFS

“NFS is a network protocol with which many UNIX-administrators
have a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, it’s the ideal
protocol if you need to export a filesystem from a UNIX-like
system. On the other, it has a bit of a reputation of being
insecure. Since a rogue system can just tell an NFS server that
‘hey, I’m representing a user with UID 1000, please remove all the
files in my home directory,’ this reputation may not be totally
undeserved.

“Or is it…?”

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