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

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:04:59AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> That's one option. Somewhere I have a JAVA-based NFS server floating
> around which could be used, too (that would be the option for the people
> who fear buffer overflows exploits *everywhere* =:-)
> Another option would be to use "usermode linux" (which boots via NFS
> from a read-only filesystem... that would give any attacker only control
> over this sandbox in the worst case) and simply forward a NFS mount
> (assuming the Linux kernel NFS server still supports re-exports of NFS
> mounts...).

Both of these options are ludicrous and unnecessary to just share files.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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