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Re: Secure RPC NFS client & server is available.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhw@wittsend.com)
Thu Mar 7 13:48:17 1996

From: <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: 	Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:54:02 -0500 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602291949.WAA07608@ms2.inr.ac.ru> from "inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru" at Feb 29, 96 10:49:35 pm

inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru enscribed thusly:

> Hi, all!

> I made secure RPC NFS working in linux.
> It is extensively tested in my network, where I have
> 9 Linux boxes and 1 Solaris-2.3 Sparc station with all exports being secure.
> It works like a wonder.

	Post it and well all give it a REAL shaking out.  :-)

> Really, I am not sure that there are security fans like me in the linux world,
> so that I have not yet prepared patches appropriate for public distribution.

	With some of us using Linux as the basis for firewalls and security
scanners and a Secure Linux project securely underway - YOU BETCHA there are
LOTS of security fans in this arena.

> If someone REALLY needs secure RPC NFS, mail to me and
> I'll find spare time to prepare these patches.
> (They should be applied to kernel,mount,amd(for client), nfsd(for server),
>  and to Sun provided secure RPC package(for both))

	Post please!  And send the patches into the maintainers!  Make your
contribution to the project and get credit for your efforts.

> Alexey Kuznetsov.
> kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru

	Mike
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