Kerberos NFSD for Linux?

[Luke Scharf]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:06:43 +0000, Sam Hartman wrote:

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>     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.

I thought that the MIT folks who built Kerberos also built a hacked-up
version of NFS that used Kerberos for authentication (although the actual
filesystem data  was unencrypted on the wire for performance).

But, I haven't been able to conjure it up out of Google.  Any ideas?


NFSv4 is definitely something that I'm investigating.  It's a race to see
if 2.6 makes it into a major distribution before my servers wend their way
through the purchasing department.  :-)

Thanks,
-Luke