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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@cs.toronto.edu>,
	Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Best approach for authenticating hosts for NFS (v3)?
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:32:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545A510C.4000208@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141104165313.CA9025A04C1@testapps.cs.toronto.edu>



On 11/04/2014 11:53 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> PS: 'switch to NFS v4 to strongly authenticate user requests' is not an
>     option for us. We specifically value things that cannot be done
>     with true verification of user identification, like cron, and we
>     don't have and don't want to build the infrastructure that would
>     be required for strongly authenticated NFS v4.
The exact same "strongly authenticate" that in v4 is available
with v3. NFS secure mounts (-o krb5) are available 
with all NFS protocol versions.

Tying NFS secure mounts with an FreeIPA environment should work
out well..    

steved.
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 16:53 Best approach for authenticating hosts for NFS (v3)? Chris Siebenmann
2014-11-05  8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-05 16:32 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2014-11-05 16:45   ` Chris Siebenmann
2014-11-05 20:21     ` Steve Dickson
2014-11-09 20:50     ` Simo Sorce

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