[ale] Secure NFS

[Dow Hurst]

Rsync via ssh is much better for what you really want which is a backup of 
your data.  You could tunnel NFS thru a VPN but I wouldn't want to deal with 
the overhead.  When you get home at night, hook up the laptop to the home 
network and then at 3am an rsync could run to backup your data.  That could be 
done without SSH if your machines are firewalled.
Dow


Emil P. Man wrote:
> ALErs,
> 
> I recently had a failure on my laptop; the reiserfs tree got messed up 
> on my laptop. I want to protect myself somewhat from this happening 
> again, especially since I have a lot of important school work on this 
> laptop. Also, I do some work from my home desktop and I would like to 
> keep documents synchonized. On the synban.com server I have a tape 
> back-up drive that will help me do backups of this stuff. So what I 
> would like to do is export an NFS directory from the server and mount 
> that dir on my laptop and the desktop. This way I can backup that 
> directory once a week with a cron job and also keep my stuff well 
> synchronized.
> Now, I would like to give access to this NFS shared directory to my home 
> network which will be easy enough. The problem comes with giving access 
> to the KSU domain to that NFS directory. If I give read/write access to 
> all the KSU domain (b/c my IP on the laptop changes constantly), this is 
> a security risk. Any ideas on how I can give access to myself from 
> outside to NFS? How can I accomplish my goal? Can LDAP help me in this 
> situation? I have learned the basics of LDAP but I have never actually 
> implemented it. If this will solve my dilema, I will go more in-depth 
> and learn LDAP.
> 
> Yours,
> Emil
> 
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