SSH and OOo

[Stew Schneider]

Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
> Be careful about using NFS with no protection between you and the
> Internet.  It is an insecure protocol in that it doesn't deal with
> authentication.  I would only run NFS behind a firewall.  Be sure to
> read section 6 of the How-To mentioned above before using NFS on an
> unprotected network.
>   
We should be in good shape. It's in a locked building, five boxes plus 
server, behind a router. I still need to deal with hosts.allow and 
hosts.deny when I get back from school next week, but I am astonished at 
how well it went with the aid of the howto you referred.
> I also thought of another question concerning the password prompt when
> using the fish:// protocol.  Do you have a private/public key that is
> used for ssh access to the remote machine?  If so, did you try the
> password to your private key?
>   
Don't have a key established. NFS, however, is clearly the right 
solution for this application. We're a non-profit which provides 
referral and assistance to the needy. That means we run on hand-me-down 
boxes, usually encumbered by xp and moving glacially by the time we get 
them.On stations where Quickbooks don't have to be run, I'm moving them 
to Ubuntu. The performance pickup is very great. Thing is, I want to 
introduce as few Linux "eccentricities" as I can, because volunteers and 
social workers have to be able to run them. The surprising behavior of 
OpenOffice really bothered me, as it's so counter-intuitive.

With the shares mounted as NFS, everything works "like Windows" (except 
better ;-) ) and they shouldn't have a problem.

I'm very grateful for your help here. You done good!

stew