On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Jim Carter wrote:

> Unfortunately Kerberos is used to authenticate the client *host*, so
> hostbased impersonation schemes (rogue laptops) no longer work, but it
> still relies on the client to honestly report the alphabetic loginID and
> group ID of the client user, and so is vulnerable to a generic root
> exploit on the client.

I don't believe that to be the case -- Kerberos NFS authenticates the
end-users. If you're actually using Kerberos security, any access from a
local user without appropriate credentials is mapped to the nobody account
(or simply denied, I don't recall which)


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