-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-03-15 18:39, jsa wrote:
This is quite true. Others replicating the documentation was necessary in the days that distros were all sent on CD, but now we have the net, and as long as you can get there you can find all the stuff you want.
Even today, there are people without internet.
Personally I would never set up sharing with no passwords, even (or especially) on a home network. I refuse to even help others set up such insecure installations. Not on Linux, and Not on Windows.
It depends what you put there. I might give read access to everybody to a music or video collection. I might give free write access to my partners so that they can send me files. I would not export my Documents, not even home. On the other hand, Linux native filesystem protocol, NFS, has no passwords at all, it is completely insecure. You give access to certain users on certain IPs, but IPs can be faked and user ID changed. And the transport is not encrypted. Yet we use it. Theoretically, it is to be used in controlled environments, but is that always true? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9iZ10ACgkQIvFNjefEBxog3QCffa4xne/0d5ZaUkdnX+otMB5k r1AAoNbZIYG/MBQjdcNx4cIdB3zNA/nO =PcnO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org