[3292] in Kerberos
Re: What is Kerberized NFS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Smith)
Wed May 18 01:38:55 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 18 May 1994 05:07:05 GMT
From: cs@kanawha.Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Reply-To: cs@Eng.Sun.COM
> Nick Eggleston <nick@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote:
>
> >What does Kerberized NFS give me? Does it make users id themselves
> >before accessing files? Does it prevent root from becoming another
> >user and accessing his files? Thanks,
>
> Users need to present valid Kerberos tickets to the NFS server at
> MOUNT time (only).
That's certainly not the way Kerberos authentication in SunOS 5.x
works. It's a full-fledged RPC authentication flavor. For more information,
take a look at the draft RFC available via anonymous FTP to playground.sun.com,
file pub/oncrpc/draft-ietf-oncrpc-auth-00.txt.
Carl
