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Re: NFS authentication via kerberos?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas A. La Porte)
Tue Aug 14 16:44:00 2007

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:15:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Thomas A. La Porte" <Thomas.LaPorte@dreamworks.com>
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NFSv4 supports Kerberos authentication.

  -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte, DreamWorks Animation
<mailto:tlaporte@anim.dreamworks.com>

On Mon, 14 Aug 2007, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote:

> The standard NFS file exporting mechanism in Unix/Linux is a well
> known security problem.
>
> Is there a way to use Kerberos to perform secure authentication
> for NFS exports in the Linux environment?
>
>
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