kerberos and nfs

[Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com]

That's the wrong question to ask.

There is something called Secure NFS, which is really NFS with new authentication flavor called RPCSEC_GSS, which in turn uses GSS-API, which in turn support Kerberos V.

Now. Sun has an implementation of all of that based on MIT krb5 code, though you can't simply take MIT krb5 and plug it in - you must use Sun's code.

And Sun is helping the University of Michigan put together a Linux implementation of NFSv4 (which includes Secure NFS) using MIT krb5. See:

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/

So, the questions should really be:

Q1) Does NFS support the use of Kerberos V for network authentication?
A1) Yes. See above.

Q2) Is there a commercial implementation of NFS supporting the use of Kerberos V for network authentication?
A2) Yes, for Sun Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and 9.

Q3) Is there an open source / freeware implementation of NFS supporting the use of Kerberos V for network authentication?
A3) Yes. See above.

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josef Allen [mailto:josallen at cs.fsu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: Sam Hartman
> Cc: kerberos at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: kerberos and nfs
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> Does the mit version of kerb V support nfs?
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