http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/05/30/1927237.shtml?tid=126 This is a slashdot post and several hundred replies about the issue. You can look through it. They talk a bunch about AFS among other things. I didn't read the whole things. Its really long.
-Eric Hattemer ----- Original Message ----- From: "whenever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [luau] (Secure) NFS alternatives and centralized authentication? > take a look at coda, the peopel I know who use it love it. > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ > > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:15 am, you wrote: > > I've been using NFS on my LAN for a while, but that's a totally > > unacceptable solution for anything but completely trusted networks. > > Also, SunRPC doesn't exactly have the greatest track record in terms of > > security. Are there any alternatives to NFS that behave in a similar > > fashon (just mount them and they're there as though they were local > > filesystems) that are a bit more secure (possibly offering some form of > > authentication in addition to just trusting the host, possibly enforcing > > some form of user rights so a person can't own a single system and > > pretend to be any user they want, etc)? > > > > I'm looking to implement part of a Linux based lab where I can either > > dynamically mount each user's home directory when they log in (this is > > against a Novell 5 server) or I could possibly mount the whole homes > > tree, but that wouldn't work very well (see earlier comment about a > > local compromise leading to full rights on the network). > > > > I'm also looking for ways to authenticate against a central directory > > (Novell NDS in this case, but I might also want to do some of this at > > home where I don't run Novell). > > > > Warren, I'm pretty sure you have some experience with this; care to > > share? :) > > > > --MonMotha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > >