On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want to ask the list's opinion on this. This has been mentioned in
> passing before, but I think a larger discussion might yield more ideas. The
> question is, what alternatives to NFS are there for simple in-office networked
> file access?
>
> There's NFS, which has a number of security issues inherent in its design.
> It requires (AFAIK) host-trust relationships, which are insecure in most
> office desktop environments.
Can't authentication (host and user) and also encryption (for privacy)
be layered into NFS somehow? I know Solaris has SEAM (Sun Enterprise
Auth Mechanism) which I believe glues kerberos v5 to NFS. E.g.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/ds-seam/
Is there a similar open source project going on?
I believe if the desired features could be layered into NFS there would
be a better chance of acceptance since NFS is used so much...
Karl Runge
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