Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2001 22:17:16 +0200 | From | (Frank Schneider) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Secure network fileserving Linux <-> Linux |
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Joseph Mathewson schrieb: > > 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.)
Hello...
What about switching to IPSec ?
Should work between Linuxboxes....or why shouldn't it ?
Solong... Frank.
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