Þann Þriðjudagur 04 janúar 2005 18:36 skrifaði Joaquin Menchaca:
Lastly, SAMBA requires authentication, while NFS does not. You have to map SMB-style accounts to UNIX accounts, which can be cumbersome, but does provide a level of security. However, NFS requires the UID to match, but doesn't do any sort of authentication. This can be considered rather dangerous, as a hacker can find the UIDs and get access to the files.
True, for the most part ... there is something called NIS that works in coherence with NFS. Point is, if you have two, or more, Linux or Unix machines, that already handle authendication adequately. You are likely to want a "common" userbase, for ease of administration. I see no reason to add more authendication protocols to that, unless the system is volatile and the network is insecure ... but I'm not running the pentagon at home. My 2¢ worth, Örn