Kerberos NFSD for Linux?

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 5 14:04:34 EST 2004


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

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

No, that doesn't exist for Linux and it isn't secure anyway.  I really
don't consider anything that doesn't at least integrity protect the
data even moderately secure.  But the original KNFS had significant
problems on top of not integrity protecting data.



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