"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftp onfreedesktop.org?

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Tue May 25 06:55:11 PDT 2004


On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:54:00PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Erm... you only have to open the NFS port in the kernel firewall so
> other RPC services are not affected. And there are far more exploits out
> there for ftp deamons than the NFS deamon (this issue isn't really that
> security sensitive since there are a couple of public NFS servers for
> Debian packages...) ... :)

I defy you to compare the amount of exploits out there for, say, vsftpd
or ProFTPd, to those for NFS daemons.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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