Local User Management in FreeNAS | Linux Today

Local User Management in FreeNAS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 29, 2008

[ Thanks to Himanshu
Panchal
for this link. ]

“Not all services provided by FreeNAS use local
accounts for authentication, most notably NFS. This requires a note
of caution. If you have NFS enabled, and are using local user
authentication for CIFS, FTP, and AFP be aware that users can still
connect to the FreeNAS server using NFS without any username and
password. This is an easy way for people to circumvent the local
user authentication process.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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