Aloha, You could check out:
OpenAFS - http://www.openafs.org/ or Global File System - http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm $$$$$ The guy that started this project in college has stoped using the GPL and started his own company. OpenGFS (http://www.opengfs.org) took the GPL code and has continued development. I was talking to EMC about GFS a couple years ago and it sounded great. Dusty > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
