From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 09:06:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A091416A4B3; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bas.flux.utah.edu (bas.flux.utah.edu [155.98.60.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FBF44008; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danderse@flux.utah.edu) Received: from bas.flux.utah.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bas.flux.utah.edu (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h8PG6oLj084352; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:06:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from danderse@bas.flux.utah.edu) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by bas.flux.utah.edu (8.12.9/8.12.5/Submit) id h8PG6ogI084351; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:06:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:06:50 -0600 From: "David G. Andersen" To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20030925100650.B80664@cs.utah.edu> References: <20030924145029.V18252@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0400 cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unified authentication X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:06:51 -0000 Robert Watson just mooed: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > > > Once I get authentication working, how do I handle > > > the creation of home directories and basic user > > > files across multiple machines? > > > > > > Do I need to start running NFS, or is there a more > > > elegant solution? > > > > OpenAFS, very elegant solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on > > FreeBSD yet (or anymore as a client). > > The Arla client used to work quite well, and probably still works quite > well on 4.x. I'm not sure of the status of Arla on 5.x. It sounded like > Tom Maher had the OpenAFS server code up and running on FreeBSD, so you > should at least have access to a pair of AFS client/server that work. If the client machines are semi-trusted, SFS is a good solution. I don't know that its authentication is integrated with kerberos, but the security model is at least stronger than NFS: Root on a client machine could gain access to users accounts if they accessed them from that machine, but not to accounts that merely were OK to export to that machine. http://www.fs.net/ -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.