NFS security (was: Changing NGROUPS_MAX to 1024?)
Edgar Fuß <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:54:09 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel |
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> Is it? My feeling - deriving largely from my experience - is that NFS > is far more likely to be deployed in a private internal network than > over relatively attackable networks like the open Internet. Do you > have reason to think that feeling is wrong in the large, that "new NFS > installations" predominantly have threat models where on-the-wire > attacks are significant enough for them to find NFSv3 unacceptable? > (Honestly, my guess would be that most of them have not even formulated > their threat model.) The problem with NFSv3 is that the server believes the client. So, if one of my 150 clients gets compromised, all user data is compromised.