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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS authentication
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done
> > by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel?  Can
> > anyone give me a pointer?  Thanks a lot. 
> 
> Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from
> the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results
> back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so
> there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all.

nfs_socket.c:#ifdef NFSKERB
nfs_socket.c-                   XXX
nfs_socket.c-#endif

There is some work already there, it's just incomplete.

-Alfred



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