Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Secure network fileserving Linux <-> Linux | From | Joseph Mathewson <> | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:13:02 +0100 |
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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.
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