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

[Roland Mainz]

Keith Packard wrote:
> > ... when we are thinking about this... what about having a "public NFS"
> > server, too (which means: People can mount a certain directory (like the
> > root dir of the ftp space) _READ_ _ONLY_ ?
> 
> There have been too many remote root exploits of RPC and NFS for me to be
> comfortable with this.

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...) ... :)

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Bye,
Roland

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