Kerberos NFSD for Linux?

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 5 11:28:28 EST 2004


>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Scharf <lscharf at lukeshouse.homeunix.org> writes:

    Luke> Is there a version of NFSD for Linux that supports Kerberos?
    Luke> I haven't yet been able to summon it from the depths of
    Luke> Google.

I think you may be out of luck.  Really the first version of NFS that
seems to be particularly secure is NFS version 4.  There are some
attempts to add Kerberos to previous versions of NFS, but I'm
unconvinced of the security of most of them.

Sadly, NFS v4 competes with AFS for complexity.



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