Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:34:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jeffa@sybase.com Subject: Re: NFS in Sun environment Message-ID: <199601311734.KAA09982@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9601301929.AA19233@teak.sybase.com> from "Jeff Anuszczyk" at Jan 30, 96 02:29:11 pm
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> I think I understand the weak authentication problem that NFS on non-Sun
> platforms has when trying to mount a Sun exported NIS NFS disk. So, since
> I don't run the Sun servers I'm trying to work around this. One of the
> things that we do have is pcnfsd running to allow PC's to authenticate
> themselves when they want to mount NFS stuff. Usually this is intended
> for product like Netmanage ChameleonNFS.
>
> Is there any way that I can convince mount to contact a pcnfsd for
> authentication when doing a mount to a Sun System? This would allow me
> to get around this problem using an already existing solution. If not,
> any ideas how hard it would be to cobble up a mount_nfs to do this?
man mount_nfs:
[ ... ]
-P Use a reserved socket port number. This is useful for mounting
servers that require clients to use a reserved port number on the
mistaken belief that this makes NFS more secure. (For the rare
case where the client has a trusted root account but untrusworthy
users and the network cables are in secure areas this does help,
but for normal desktop clients this does not apply.)
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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