Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 28, 2004 01:46 AM
why would you use nfs? if, for example, an attacker does manage to get a shell on your computer, having your backups over nfs would leave them wide open to an attacker. the only authentication nfs performs is on a host basis. scp would be a much better way to go. while it's definitely not perfect, it would be a much better idea to setup a ssh key, and use ssh-agent for the key's password. you may have to type in the password after a reboot or something, but it's definitely a better solution than using nfs.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 28, 2004 01:46 AM#