Network File Systems

Network File Systems definition - hacker
A file-sharing protocol used on UNIX and Linux computers. Because NFS was not designed with security concerns taken into consideration, it has some reported design vulnerabilities.

See Also: Linux; UNIX; Vulnerabilities of Computers.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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