On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done
> by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel?  Can
> anyone give me a pointer?  Thanks a lot. 

Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from
the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results
back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so
there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all.

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