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Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: using NFS to read news
Message-ID: <207@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 15:01:16 EST
Article-I.D.: rlvd.207
Posted: Wed Mar 11 15:01:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 07:05:42 EST
Reply-To: ian@rlvd.UUCP (Tom Gunn)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Division, U.K.
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Keywords: Is NFS secure for reading news?


   Recently there was a discussion in this group about whether NFS or NNTP was
the best system for news reading with a "server" machine and many "clients". I
have a question. If NFS is used for this, ie mount the news spool directory on
the client machines, does this cause any security problems? To be more specific
if the news spool directory is owned by root on the server machine then the
clients cannot post news; if it is not then anyone can write into it. How have
those sites that use NFS got around this problem? Are you happy to let your
clients read news but not post it, or do you not mind anyone being able to
write into your news spool directory on the server machine? I can think of no
simple solution to this problem. How have you done it?


Ian Gunn                               UK JANET : ian@uk.ac.rl.vd
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