Re: [aclug-L] telnet

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> hey, is it possible / how do i mount remote file systems... for
> instance, i have been doing my programming on my school's server, and i
> would like to be able to mount my home dir on that server to something
> on my computer...  this way, i can use all my nifty stuff, then telnet

It would be extremely unlikely if you were permitted to do this, since 
it would be a huge security risk.  NFS necessarily does not have any
login/password authentication scheme, since it lies at a lower level
of the system than that, meaning it would be trivial for others to
impersonate you in such a scheme -- or worse, impersonate root.

NFS is quite useful if "trusted" people run all the machines using it, 
but bad things can happen otherwise.

That said, the command is:

mount -t nfs remotehost:/remote/filesystem /mnt

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