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I was hoping to share-out my htdocs folder via NFS to another system
on my network, but this server is a webserver and has unrestricted
access to the Internet.  Is NFS secure enough to do this?  If I open
it and specify only another system on my network -- 10. range - am I
opening up myself to attacks ?

Just checking.  Thanks for the help.

Keegan.

Have you considered WebDAV instead? Presumably if you've got an htdocs
foder then you've already got a web-server on the box for some reason,
so... :)

~Tim
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for security reasons, it would be a "good thing" to use an IPtables local
firewall on the web server to protect it from malicious Internet access.
Typically a web server only need to allow inbound HTTP/HTTPS and possibly FTP
connections.
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Quote:> Hello,

> I was hoping to share-out my htdocs folder via NFS to another system
> on my network, but this server is a webserver and has unrestricted
> access to the Internet.  Is NFS secure enough to do this?  If I open
> it and specify only another system on my network -- 10. range - am I
> opening up myself to attacks ?

NFS is famous for all sorts of * security holes: as a minimum, I'd block
the NFS ports at your firewall and restrict the NFS access to read-only if
possible.