Re: NFS authentication
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: NFS authentication
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all. nfs_socket.c:#ifdef NFSKERB nfs_socket.c- XXX nfs_socket.c-#endif There is some work already there, it's just incomplete. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: NFS authentication
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all. nfs_socket.c:#ifdef NFSKERB nfs_socket.c- XXX nfs_socket.c-#endif There is some work already there, it's just incomplete. I have a feeling that it was once complete but was ripped out for crypto-export reasons. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
NFS authentication
I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
