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

[Eric Hattemer]

http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/05/30/1927237.shtml?tid=126
This is a slashdot post and several hundred replies about the issue.  You
can look through it.  They talk a bunch about AFS among other things.  I
didn't read the whole things.  Its really long.

-Eric Hattemer
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From: "whenever" <whatever at whoever.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] (Secure) NFS alternatives and centralized
authentication?


> take a look at coda, the peopel I know who use it love it.
> http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
>
>
> 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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