Re: Secure network-filesystems

From: Jared C. Lovell (lovell@blindfaith.org)
Date: 01/14/02 

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:58:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jared C. Lovell" <lovell@blindfaith.org>
To: Philippe Seidel <pagin@newopenness.de>

NFS over SSH tunnels works for me.... Not extremely fast, but encrypted
traffic rarely is. Since SSH is free or nearly free, it's worth a shot
before using anything expensive and/or restricted to a single OS. NFS and
SSH is a winning combo if your environment is mixed (alll mojor UNIXes,
NT/2000), and adds the benefit of proper authentication.

Hope this helps.

- Jared Lovell

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Philippe Seidel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just want to set up a central file server offering both public
> shares and private stuff (home directories and stuff like this) on an
> OpenBSD box.
> Everything well, until I realized that both samba and NFS will pass
> everything unencrypted through the network.
>
> Now my question:
> Are there any free (speech or beer) network-filesystems offering both
> optional encryption (for the public shares it just gives
> away computing time) as well as also optional secure (kerberos?) user
> authentication available both for *nixes (meanpart Linux) *and*
> Windows 9x? Eventually two different systems, one for the *nixes and
> one for the windows-machines.
>
> Someone in this list just mentioned NFS+, but I didn't find anything
> at a short google search.
> What about an encrypted SMB share?
> Or this mysterious thing I saw in the Linux kernel... Coda?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Philippe
>
>

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