On 2014-06-26 21:20, Claudio Freire wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Carlos E. R.
wrote: AFAIK, NFS 3 does not have authentication. You just connect if you have the right IP. An intruder to the building, or a visitor, could connect a new machine and get access to the NFS shares. I recogn that I have not looked carefully at NFS 4 features to find out what has changed there, though.
NFSv4 supports kerberos[0] (authentication, albeit a horrid one if you ask me),
I think I heard something about it.
and idmapd[1], which maps usernames to uid/gid.
[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NFSv4Howto#NFSv4_Server_with_Kerberos [1] https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
I will have to read about that. Wrote a note to myself. Thanks. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)