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Subject: Re: NFS vs. FTP vs. SMB
From: Todd Graham Lewis <lists @ reflections . mindspring . com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:07:22 -0500 (EST)
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199610312146 . PAA02692 @ binki . bridge . com>

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Ken Hardy wrote:

> NFS can use TCP (that's been mentioned, right?).  Don't know about its
> TCP port usage firsthand, though.  Use IPSec, SSL, VPNs, or whatever
> (availability will vary) with NFS/TCP, and you overcome some of the
> main wide-wooly-internet security issues of NFS.  But you'll still be
> trusting the remote system to authenticate the user.

Not, apparently, with Kerberized NFS.  IPSEC NFS should not rely on the 
remote system for authentication either.

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