The Joy of Penguins : Linux System Administration

Linux System Administration

NFS - Network File System

Setting up an NFS server :
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny

These two files specify which computers on the network can use services on your machine.
Each line of the file contains a single entry listing a service and a set of machines.
When the server gets a request from a machine, it does the following:

It first checks hosts.allow to see if the machine matches a description listed in there. If it does, then the machine is allowed access.

If the machine does not match an entry in hosts.allow, the server then checks hosts.deny to see if the client matches a listing in there. If it does then the machine is denied access.

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