Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:07:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted? | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> I personally doubt that NFS would be the thing driving > this. Judging by past performance, NFS security issues don't > seem to bother people. I'd personally assume that the thing > that would be important enough to people for vendors to add it > is VPN or encrypted (local) disks.
As I said: one of the main motivations for NFSv4 is WAN support, and in those environments, strong authentication is a must.
That said, the plan is to also prepare a 'null' authentication scheme for RPCSEC_GSS (basically using RPCSEC_GSS as a wrapper for AUTH_UNIX) so that the strong auth can be provided as a simple plugin in case its inclusion in the kernel would not be acceptable.
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