[lpi-discuss] Re: just took the 102 exam.. -- more personal opinion (on NFS)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:38, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Learning DNS, SSH and NFS are _good_things_ to know for corporate
> experience.

Just FYI, in case others suggest what I think they might about NFS (not
this original poster, but I've always seen people state it regularly). 
One thing that I tire of is the "excuse" that NFS is "insecure" so no
one should learn it -- or, worse yet -- "use Samba not NFS" (I roll my
eyes).  NFS itself is rather simplistic, but the concepts are at the
foundation of how UNIX/Linux "mounts" remote filesystems, _regardless_
of use of NFS or something else.  But even NFS itself should not be
considered any "less secure" than many other, popular network filesystem
implementations.

I addressed this in a recent LUG list thread:  
 http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2004-October/040554.html 


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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