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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Secure user authentication for NFS using RPCSEC_GSS [0/6]
On 12 Jan 2003, Dax Kelson wrote:

> Standard NFS security/authentication sucks rocks. Without this NFS home
> directory servers are just waiting to be ransacked by a rouge (or
> compromised) root user on a client machine.

AIUI, A root user still can. The users krbv5 credentials will
generally have been cached to storage. (though i suppose one could
mount that storage via NFS and use root_squash, but that's little
protection.).

> NFSv4 w/RPSEC_GSS is finally a native UNIX filesharing solution that
> I don't have to be ashamed of when hanging with admins of those
> "other OSes".

Unless NFSv4 has dealt with the problem above, it isnt much protection
from rogue root users.

> Dax

regards,
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