On Friday, November 18, 2011, david klein wrote: > You may find that FreeIPA in RHEL 6,2 is a pretty painless way to setup > Kerberos, LDAP and NFSv4, and integrates them nicely. This would allow you > to have the benefits of central authentication and secure filesystem > export. > > The big difference between NFS and ISCSI is that NFS exports a filesystem, > while ISCSI exports a raw disk slice or the virtual equivalent thereof. > Both are ready for prime-time, though NFS has had a much longer history, so > it is very mature. > > While NFS does not require Kerberos, it benefits *A* *LOT* from a > centralized identity/authentication/authorization.
considering we have no user accounts on machines and that space will mostly be
used by services - central auth is no priority. What we're really shooting for
is speed and some level of security (encryption?).
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