[luau] (Secure) NFS alternatives and centralized authentication?

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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:15 am, you wrote:
> I've been using NFS on my LAN for a while, but that's a totally
> unacceptable solution for anything but completely trusted networks.
> Also, SunRPC doesn't exactly have the greatest track record in terms of
> security.  Are there any alternatives to NFS that behave in a similar
> fashon (just mount them and they're there as though they were local
> filesystems) that are a bit more secure (possibly offering some form of
> authentication in addition to just trusting the host, possibly enforcing
> some form of user rights so a person can't own a single system and
> pretend to be any user they want, etc)?
>
> I'm looking to implement part of a Linux based lab where I can either
> dynamically mount each user's home directory when they log in (this is
> against a Novell 5 server) or I could possibly mount the whole homes
> tree, but that wouldn't work very well (see earlier comment about a
> local compromise leading to full rights on the network).
>
> I'm also looking for ways to authenticate against a central directory
> (Novell NDS in this case, but I might also want to do some of this at
> home where I don't run Novell).
>
> Warren, I'm pretty sure you have some experience with this; care to
> share? :)
>
> --MonMotha
>
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