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

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:10:15PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Egbert Eich wrote:
> > I was putting together some development related information to the X.org
> > wiki. I would like to make a few scripts and tools available to the public
> > and the most hassle free way (for the user) would be to simply create a
> > link to an anonymous ftp server. However freedesktop.org doesn't seem to
> > have this.
> > Who whould I have to ask to start ftp on fd.o?
> 
> ... 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_ ?

No way. NFS is way too insecure for this: I don't trust it at all.
WebDAV, maybe.
		
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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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