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Re: Kerberized keyserv daemon for Secure NFS, anyone?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J. Brashear)
Wed Sep 28 04:40:25 1994

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:58:01 -0400
From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.protocols.kerberos: 27-Sep-94 Re: Kerberized
keyserv daem.. by John Brezak@apollo.hp.co 
> You might look at the NFS implementation in 4.4BSD-Lite. You might look at
> these papers that describe the implementation.
>  
> "The 4.4BSD NFS Implementation", Rick Macklem, University of Guelph, BSD 4.4
> SMM.
>  
> "Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS", Rick Macklem, 1194 Winter 
> USENIX.
>  
> This implementation uses Kerberos4 (mount_nfs -kerb) for authentication. It
> probably can be changed to use Kerberos5 too.
>  
>  
>  
This would be very useful... *if* it were easily able to be ported to
other platforms. From what I saw, this is not the case.

-D


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