Re: secure nfs

From: Peter H. Lemieux (phl@cyways.com)
Date: 11/13/01 

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:28:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "Peter H. Lemieux" <phl@cyways.com>
To: jnf <jnf@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: secure nfs
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111131517250.4490-100000@virtual.cyways.com>

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, jnf wrote:
>
> > Hi I am looking into a secure free nfs implementation for linux

If by "secure" you mean only the transport layer and not authentication, I
recommend regular NFS over an encrypted CIPE tunnel. The NFS shares reside
on a remote host and are tunneled to my local network via my firewall.
Then I can mount securely the remote shares on any host on my local
network just by connecting to the remote host's CIPE interface.

CIPE home page: http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html

Peter

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