"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftp onfreedesktop.org?

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:14:31AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Did you read the part of the original posting which says "read-only" and
> WebNFS (e.g. only the NFS port itself, no portmapper involved etc. ...)
> ? So far this isn't more dangerous that WebDAV. And WebDAV isn't an
> option since non-Linux OSes can't handle it (and WebDAV isn't "secure"
> either).

Yes, but you're assuming that there are no exploits in the daemon
itself. Which is a bad assumption to make.

And non-Linux OSes can handle WebDAV fine. I have personally dealt with
WebDAV on OS X and Windows, where it worked seamlessly, and on Linux,
AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and FreeBSD, where the userspace tools made
it as easy as FTP.

WebDAV is transparent to most everyone around; the majority of the
userbase use something like KDE or GNOME (or Windows or OS X), where you
can type in 'dav://' or 'webdav://', and have the server understand what
you mean.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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