Re: secure nfs

From: Jose Nazario (jose@biocserver.BIOC.cwru.edu)
Date: 11/10/01 

Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:22:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Jose Nazario <jose@biocserver.BIOC.cwru.edu>
To: jnf <jnf@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: secure nfs
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111091821360.14529-100000@biocserver.BIOC.CWRU.Edu>

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, jnf wrote:

> Hi I am looking into a secure free nfs implementation for linux

openafs or nfsv4.

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

both are FAR more secure than NFSv3 typically is. you an integrate
kerberos, for example, as auth and for transport layer security.

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