Subject: Re: Netatalk security aspects?
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 1997 - 21:29:05 EDT
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> Are there any measures one should take in order to diminish the risk of
> a NetaTalk server getting hacked? For example, is it possible to
> restrict access to an explicite list of ethernet addresses only?
> Could and should one prevent users from exporting arbitrary directories?
I'm not sure about the host restrictions, but users can't export arbitrary
directories. Well, they can try, but the afpd process will run as them
when it tries to access these directories. Thus if the user doesn't have
access, they can't use netatalk to gain access.
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