Re: Security negotiation

[Tom Haynes <tdh-8AdZ+HgO7noAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Yeah, that was a linux mountd bug.  Fixed by the below.  And note the
> rfc language it mentions:
>
> 	"For this reason, a NFS client SHOULD use the first flavor in the
> 	list that it supports, on the assumption that the best access is
> 	provided by the first flavor. NFS servers that support the
> 	ability to export file systems with multiple security flavors
> 	SHOULD either present the best accessing flavor first to the
> 	client, or leave the order under the control of the system
> 	administrator."
>
> Of course we may still be stuck with buggy servers, so perhaps a careful
> client will still want to handle auth_null at least specially....
>
>   

Hey Chuck and Bruce,

Thanks for the discussion on this subject, it really helped us by 
understanding what the
Linux client and server was doing.

Tom