Configuring an NFS Server - Exercise

Objective: Configure an NFS server.

Scoring

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Background | Overview

Your manager has asked you to make all of your company's source code available. You have decided to use NFS to accomplish the task. The NFS server should export the /proj directory as read/write to all hosts in the mycompany.com domain.

Instructions

You will need to configure NFS through /etc/exports to allow all hosts in the mycompany.com domain read/write access to /proj.
Question: What line would you put in /etc/exports to export /proj, read/write, to all hosts in the mycompany.com domain?

"/proj *.mycompany.com(rw)"

Explanation:

Now answer the following questions:

Why is using wildcards in /etc/exports a bad idea?
When would you want to export the root filesystem (/), and with what permissions?

Submitting your answer

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