Messages in this thread |  | | From | Fred <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Secure network fileserving Linux <-> Linux | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:30:57 -0500 |
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One possible solution might be samba, but I'd be lying if I asserted anything about its security, I do know that it can be configured to operate entirely over SSL though.
Fred
__________________________________________________ On Wednesday 05 September 2001 02:13 pm, Joseph Mathewson wrote: > Sorry to ask another annoying question so quickly after my SCSI problems, > but > > Does anyone know of/use a secure network filesharing system on a Linux > network? We currently have a room of about 10 machines, mostly Linux > clients (some MacOS X, soon to come Sun and HP-UX boxes) and servers (all > running Linux). > > For some time now, we've been using NFS for filesharing /home and have been > extremely concerned about security. All the clients in theory run the same > uids/gids, thanks to LDAP, but that doesn't stop someone plugging in an > unauthorized machine and merrily destroying everyone's home directories. > > Apparently some work was done to Kerberize various bits of NFS, and Sun > have a secure(r) implementation in Solaris. > > Does anyone know of a free (preferably easy :) way of secure Linux <-> > Linux filesharing? Apologies if that seems like a flame, maybe I've missed > the obvious solution. (Preferably a solution that doesn't involve editing > /etc/exports to only allow connections from specified IPs, because if > someone was going to go to the length of destroying our data, they could > fake that. Similarly, MAC addresses.) > > Joe. > > +-------------------------------------------------+ > > | Joseph Mathewson <joe@mathewson.co.uk> | > > +-------------------------------------------------+ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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